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

Olivier Berger olivier.berger at telecom-sudparis.eu
Wed Apr 17 18🔞47 CEST 2013

Roger Serwy <roger.serwy at gmail.com> writes:

There is a project on Sourceforge that translated IDLE into Turkish, but I haven't tried it yet: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyidlelif/

I can't read turkish, but this looks to me like a fork of the code (seing plenty of turkish phrases in comments or strings) :-/

IDLE has a lot of hard-coded phrases scattered throughout the code. It's perfectly doable to add multi-language support. However, keep in mind that Tk itself has a problem with non-BMP unicode characters. See http://bugs.python.org/issue14200 which provided a work-around.

OK, I guess that for a start and my immediate needs for french language, this shouldn't be a problem.

It looks like Damien Marié has started with a solution based on gettext that looks nice to me, even though I'm not so much anymore a Python expert : http://bugs.python.org/issue17776

After a few tests, it looks like I can translate messages in a .po file and get them displayed in french in the menus on the 2.7 branch :-)

Looks promising :-)

Best regards,

Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)

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