Hello gang. Mario Reingart has been trying to internationalise CPython since at least 2012.
Here is his lastest proposal, for GSOC. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2015/reingart/5634387206995968 The PSF declined to fund it. He's written a PEP about it, which apparantly isn't in the list of PEPs anywhere, and has had this discussion, such as it was on the python-dev mailing list. http://bugs.python.org/issue16344 seems to have the arguments against having it put into Cpython. The arguments against seem very weak to me. My idea is that it would be good to intenationalise PyPy and then we can capture all the people who want to teach Python in the non-english speaking world. Mariano already has written a book about using web2py, but as far as I know we are perfectly compliant with this. Mariano didn't know anything about PyPy when I wrote to him about it. The idea that it was a completely Python compliant version was news to him... an indication that we lack international communication presence. This could be a way out of obscurity. Poor old Mariano has been fighting this fight since before 2012. He is sad and unhappy. Mostly he is sad and unhappy because people won't discuss what he wants, or move from -- ideals fine, implementation well, would be better this way --- or any sort of reasonable discussion. 'Hung out to dry' comes to mind. I sincerely suspect that the people here will support this idea, but may argue that in pypy there are better ways to do it, and, well we will get it done. But in any case, please be kind to Mariano, since he has already suffered enough for the cause. ps -- funding it comes later. I'd like to get Mariano paid. But I'd like to get some sort of idea that we want to go forward with this before I make a different note on how I would like to approach funding this. Take care all, Laura _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
