[Idle-dev] I18n of IDLE's interface ?

[Olivier Berger]

Roger Serwy <roger.serwy at gmail.com> writes:

>
> There is a project on Sourceforge that translated IDLE into Turkish, but 
> I haven't tried it yet: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyidlelif/
>

I can't read turkish, but this looks to me like a fork of the code
(seing plenty of turkish phrases in comments or strings) :-/

> IDLE has a lot of hard-coded phrases scattered throughout the code. It's 
> perfectly doable to add multi-language support. However, keep in mind 
> that Tk itself has a problem with non-BMP unicode characters. See 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue14200 which provided a work-around.
>

OK, I guess that for a start and my immediate needs for french language,
this shouldn't be a problem.

It looks like Damien Marié has started with a solution based on gettext
that looks nice to me, even though I'm not so much anymore a Python
expert : http://bugs.python.org/issue17776

After a few tests, it looks like I can translate messages in a .po file
and get them displayed in french in the menus on the 2.7 branch :-)

Looks promising :-)

Best regards,
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