Translating Squeak in french language

Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Wed Jun 25 21:40:01 UTC 2003


  Hello,

> >   We did a Japanese version which tried to translate *all* of the
> > words kids will see.  And, recently Markus Gaelli, Ester Mietzsch and
> > their group in Germany did a German version based on this Japanese
> > version.
> > 
> >   So, I'd recommend that you do the similar thing what Markus and
> > Ester did.  Get the Squeak multilingualization package from SqueakMap,
> > and edit #addFrenchVocabulary method based on the
> > #addJapaneseVocabulary.
> 
> I think Claude would like to translate the whole Squeak UI not just the
> Etoy stuff. I guess it would mean a major refactoring work ...

  Although the current framework we (the Japanese guys) have done is
not great (rather crazy I should say), you can actually use it to
translate the whole UI.

  I think that more modularized translation dictionaries should be
implemented.

-- Yoshiki



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