[Localization] alphabetic category in Object Catalog

[Bert Freudenberg]

(for context: Subbu is talking about Etoys)

On 25.09.2010, at 19:52, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The alphabetic order in Objects tool hard-codes Latin alphabets. When I 
> translate these names into Kannada, this ordering breaks down. How do people 
> with non-Latin alphabets handle this issue?
> 
> Should I retain the English names and translate only the help text?

No, please translate everything.

The common objects are all categorized. The alphabetical list is only used to access rarely used objects. We should do something about them though.

> Or report a bug and request a fix?

Yes. Providing a fix is even better :)

> e.g. extracting first letters of all names and using them for alphabetic tabs.

For letter-based scripts this would make sense, yes. No idea how to deal with this for e.g. Kanji, there are jut too many, I guess.

- Bert -