[Localization] Etoys

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

At Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:16:47 -0700,
Edward Cherlin wrote:
> 
> It would make sense to me to split out all of the strings in the
> tutorials and demo projects as one module. After that, it depends on
> how the rest is structured, which I know very little about. What is in
> there that we expect children to look at without prompting? What
> should be available when we get to introducing programming more
> seriously? Should we translate identifiers in code at all? Can Squeak
> be modified to show identifier names according to a user-chosen
> locale? (I know that the answer is Yes in principle, but is it a
> reasonable task?) We have a proposal to do this in our Python IDE.

  My feeling is that there is no string for tutorials or demo project
in the po file (or are string for QuickGuides in it?)

  The Etoys part and other development part could probably be (more or
less roughly) split, but are we sure that it is going to the right
direction?  If the actual problem is Pootle's poor performance, lack
of prioritizing and grouping, etc., it might be good to fix Pootle
because Etoys will not be the only system with thousands of phrases.

> > And screenshots that would help understand the UI context.
> > Maybe this could be passed on to the Pootle devel team.
> 
> Certainly we and all other localizers need much better support for
> indicating context, whether in text or images. Maybe even video on
> occasion. We could do with a way for localizers to add their own
> comments to an item for the benefit of those to follow.

  Just for the record, but hit alt-, (hold the alt key and press the
comma key) in Etoys, choose 'open...', and then choose 'Language
Editor' or 'Language Editor for...'.  In the left or right pane,
select the phrase in question and press 'where' button.  That will
show the method that contain the string.  If you know what you're
doing, you can go ahead and provide translation there, make a po file
in one way or another and upload and merge it to the Pootle site.

-- Yoshiki