Scratch localization.

Erik Garrison erik at laptop.org
Wed Aug 27 13:00:50 EDT 2008


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:54:18PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Am 27.08.2008 um 18:38 schrieb C. Scott Ananian:
> 
> > Scratch appears to require manual editing of the Scratch.ini file in
> > order to come up in a language other than English.  Is there any way I
> > can pass a command-line option in bin/scratch-activity to set the
> > Language preference based on the value of $LANG?  I'd prefer that we
> > not have to ship a different Scratch bundle per-country.
> 
> The Right Way to do it would be using the LocalePlugin, as Etoys does.
> 
> If you need to patch up the bundle you could use the symlink trick  
> again, the actual Scratch.ini would live in data/. Thus the language  
> (and other settings possibly) that the user choses would persist. When  
> running for the first time, the startup script could generate an  
> initial Scratch.ini for the right language.

What other persistent data beyond Scratch.ini does Scratch like to
modify?



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