Hi doug

I really think that this is worth the effort because the logic is 
stupid. Then with that present in the image
we could make sure that Squeak gets really internationalized.

Stef

On Vendredi, sep 26, 2003, at 00:20 Europe/Zurich, Doug Way wrote:

> diegogomezdeck at consultar.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Stef,
>>
>>
>>> I'm evaluating the effort and we are discussing about it with serge 
>>> and
>>> others.
>>> The idea is that we would like to have a Squeak in french. But I 
>>> would
>>> like to know
>>> if this effort will not be thrown away when new balloon help and 
>>> other
>>> new english text
>>> will be included. I guess not but could you explain us how you see 
>>> that
>>> situation.
>>>
>>
>> The biggest risk in my eyes is if  Babel get not included in Squeak.  
>> Babel
>> is an almost trivial piece of code but it impacts all over Squeak.
>> Basically each "visible" string has to received the #translated 
>> message and,
>> as you can imagine, it means changes all over the image.
>>
>> The translations are hold in each language instance in a dictionary 
>> and we
>> have support for merging dictionaries, etc. so the risk is not at 
>> this part.
>>
>> One time Babel got included in Squeak every package maintainer can 
>> make the
>> package "translatable" just sending #translated to the gui's strings.
>>
>> I'd like to know which type of opportunity (if any) Babel has to be 
>> included
>> for 3.7.  What the guides think about? What the other potential 
>> translators
>> do?
>>
>
> It sounds like there's enough interest that it should at least be 
> considered/discussed.
>
> Would including Babel in 3.7 mean that we would just add a 
> String>>translated method and some associated support (a pretty small 
> change, probably a good idea assuming people like the implementation 
> of Babel) ?
>
> Or, would we also want to convert all "visible" strings in the 3.7 UI 
> to receive the #translated message (a bigger change, not as sure about 
> this) ?
>
> - Doug
>
>
>