[Localization] Scratch Now Available in UTF-8 for OLPC

[John Maloney]

Thanks for sending this out.

You might want to delete the sentence:

"Currently, Scratch only supports rendering of Latin characters. UTF-8  
character support will be added in a future Scratch release."

in the section "How to Translate Scratch without contributing a  
translation".

I tried to do it myself but wasn't sure how to log on to the wiki.  
(Maybe you can show me later today.)

	-- John

On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Evelyn Eastmond wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> There is a new version of Scratch available for download here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities 
> .
> This version of Scratch uses larger fonts for better legibility and  
> also adds Unicode support for all non-Western languages.
>
> While this version of Scratch now comes in 30+ languages,  
> translation is still very actively in progress.
> All translations for Scratch will be done using OLPC's Pootle  
> server: http://dev.laptop.org.
>
> How you can help:
> 1. Sign up on Pootle and add to the existing Scratch translations,  
> or add your own language: https://dev.laptop.org/translate/
> 2. Visit our draft how-to page (a work in progress) and suggest  
> improvements:  http://scratch.wik.is/Support/In_many_languages/Translating_Scratch
> 3. Email evelyn at media.mit.edu if you are interested in helping us  
> develop a tutorial on how to localize the Scratch *media* files to  
> other cultures (sounds/images/sample projects)
>
> Please do not hesitate to email evelyn at media.mit.edu with any  
> questions or suggestions regarding Scratch's localization support.
>
> Thanks for your time and contributions!
> Sincerely,
> Evelyn Eastmond
> evelyn at media.mit.edu
>