#3585 BLOC Update.: Support for internationalization for turtleart

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#3585: Support for internationalization for turtleart
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  Reporter:  RafaelOrtiz         |       Owner:  bss     
      Type:  defect              |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  blocker             |   Milestone:  Update.2
 Component:  turtleart-activity  |     Version:          
Resolution:                      |    Keywords:          
  Verified:  0                   |  
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Changes (by sayamindu):

 * cc: sayamindu (added)


Comment:

 One of the major problems I see with the current iteration of the source
 code is that most of the on screen/canvas items are gif files with textual
 matter on them. I don't think this is a very good i18n practice.
 One alternative way is to somehow generate images on the fly with a method
 which takes the "base" image (the actual "block"), and the text
 (gettexted) which is to be rendered on the base as arguments. However,
 this process can be
  * A bit resource intensive as all images have to be generated on the fly
  * It's impossible to pre-determine the length of a translated text, and
 so the text drawn on the base may overflow.

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