I haven't posted to the list in a few years but I think this is a very important topic.<br><br>First of all, thanks to all developers and contributors for all the effort. The improvement in the last 2 years has been nothing short of astonishing.<br>
<br>One thing that I still find lacking is squeak's internationalization support. How is it there are no official images in other languages? How about font packages for non-romanized alphabets? Given the amount of international involvement there should at least be a version with some sort of Unicode font (I realize that full Unicode fonts are huge). This is a show stopper for a lot of people these days.<br>
<br>How is Squeak-jp working? because the Japanese kids will struggle to play with etoys in English.<br><br>I've automated the localization of several software packages and I could give a hand with this. We need some sort of extractor-injector of text strings.<br>
<br>A propose using a CSV file in UTF-8 with the following information, for every language:<br><br>TARGET_LANGUAGE_CODE.csv (for instance, en-us, en-uk, en-ca, fr-fr, fr-ca, es-es, es-arg, es-uy, es-co, zh-tw, ru-ru, ru-ua, ua, jp, de-aut, de-ger, etc...)<br>
--------------------------------------------------<br><br>contents of en-us.csv:<br>string code(placeholder), string, context<br>STR_WORLD_MENU_TITLE,World,WORLD_MENU<br>STR_INSPECT_MENU_INSPECT,Inspect,INSPECT_MENU<br>
[...]<br><br>contents of es-es.csv:<br>
string code(placeholder), string, context<br>
STR_WORLD_MENU_TITLE,Mundo,WORLD_MENU<br>
[...]<br><br>contents of jp.csv:<br>
string code(placeholder), string, context<br>
STR_WORLD_MENU_TITLE,世界瘢雹,WORLD_MENU<br>
[...]<br><br>contents of ru-ru.csv:<br>
string code(placeholder), string, context<br>
STR_WORLD_MENU_TITLE,<span id="1foz">мир</span>,WORLD_MENU<br>
[...]<br>
<br><br>... and so on.<br><br>Or whatever structure you like, just so you can sort by "context", "string" or "placeholder" in OpenOffice, Excel or whatever sorts CSV files.<br><br>Sorry for the boring post.<br>