Scratch localization.

[John Maloney]

Hi, Erik.

Unfortunately, the LocalePlugin does not solve this problem. Scratch  
must still read the Spanish translation file and re-layout the UI.

I've forward you an email I sent to Scott about updating XO Scratch to  
the 1.3 release.

	-- John


On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Erik Garrison wrote:
> John,
>
> In Peru the team is using the Scratch.ini file to set the language to
> spanish.  There is a long delay between Scratch startup and the  
> setting
> of the language, in which Scratch is in english.  Does the  
> LocalePlugin
> rectify this?
>
> What work needs to be done to update XO Scratch to Scratch 1.3?
>
> Erik
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:37:48PM -0400, John Maloney wrote:
>> Hi, Erik.
>>
>> Apologies for the delay in responding. I was on vacation, then  
>> finishing
>> the Scratch 1.3 release.
>>
>> Scratch remembers the last language set by the user in the  
>> Scratch.ini
>> file. If that file is read-only, it fails gracefully.
>>
>> In older versions of Scratch (such as the current XO version), if no
>> language was specified in the Scratch.ini file, Scratch would start  
>> up
>> in English. However, it now uses the Squeak LocalePlugin to set the
>> default language. So if the computer's locale is set to Spanish,  
>> Scratch
>> should start up in Spanish. This feature has not yet been tested on
>> Linux, but it does work on Mac OS and Windows.
>>
>> Many thanks to the Squeak folks for creating the LocalePlugin!
>>
>> So I think things may work fine as they are, once we've updated XO
>> Scratch to the 1.3 release. (I'm working on that now, with help from
>> Scott if he is willing).
>>
>> Scratch does not need to write persistent data to any other files.
>>
>> (It does need to write user projects somewhere, but Scott has solved
>> that problem for now.)
>>
>> 	-- John
>>
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Erik Garrison wrote:
>>> 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?
>>