[Idle-dev] I18n of IDLE's interface ? (original) (raw)

Todd V Rovito rovitotv at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 13:45:37 CEST 2013

On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu> wrote:

Hi.

I've filed a wishlist at : http://bugs.python.org/issue17760 about the potential need for translated UI elements in IDLE. In our case, french would be an example language. It was suggested to me to forward the request to this list. I hope this is not a FAQ (although I'd be surprised to be the first to raise this need), as I haven't checked the list archives. I'm sure some may object in the line of http://bugs.python.org/issue17760#msg187088 but I find it a bit odd to force this on users... which are free to set their system's locale to english if they do want to force Python beginners to learn english. FYI, we for example have the oportunity to teach Python to all students in some classes in France (CPGE), and although they may have also some honest english curriculum too, I'd expect their computers to have some french locales, and the discrepency may look a bit surprising to some (whether or not these english strings only makes Python look more or less "sexy" is to be determined ;-). I haven't investigated how IDLE handles UI elements, but could volunteer for helping on translations to french of any messages in .po or likes, of course. I think multi language support is a great idea but I have no idea how difficult implementation will be. It is great that you have volunteered to help because we need all the help we can get. I am a mentor for Google Summer of Code and perhaps I can add multi-language support as a stretch goal to the project.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2013/python-core

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