The ~600 method changeset which converts the UI to use translated 
strings will be incorporated soon... probably tomorrow (Saturday) 
evening.  It sounds like the "explicit" approach has been more or less 
agreed upon by the people who have an interest in translation issues. 
(see Stef's message below)  It's been approved by Stephane (and others), 
although I guess it never was published as an [enh], perhaps because it 
was too large.

Anyway, this is a bit of a warning before the changeset goes in, in case 
anyone has a comment.

I guess this does mean that people adding text to the end-user UI will 
need to remember to add #translated messages to the strings that appear 
in the UI.  (The end-user UI appears to include etoys, morphs, 
filelists, etc. but not development tools like browsers.)  Anyway, this 
adds a minor bit of complexity, but having Squeak easily available in 
many languages will be a great thing!

The changeset is currently here:

http://swiki.agro.uba.ar/small_land/uploads/191/CompleteTranslationFor37-dgd.cs.gz

There are a few conflicts with more recent methods since this changeset 
was written, but those should be covered by Stephane's BabelConflicts 
fix from yesterday, which I'll also include as an update.

- Doug


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	About babel
Date: 	Sat, 8 Nov 2003 21:57:32 +0100
From: 	ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch>
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Hi

during the squeak party here we (markus, marcus, lukas, hans, diego,
alex and me) got a good discussion on how to proceed with the two babel
options andreas approach with literal changes and translated of diego.

After a lot of interesting discussions we arrive to a consensus that
diego approach is better because
it makes things explicit and that this is already done and ready to go
in the image.

So I'm planning to wait until doug includes in the stream the pending
approved items to check conflicts with the huge changeset diego
produced: 600 methods. For now there are 15 conflicts simple one I
guess with 3.7a and with that we will have a fully language aware basic
image. Just waiting for translators to proceed.


Stef