[PD] Re: [PD-dev] Patching in Tongues: The PureData Translation Project

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > translation is not a bad thing in general ... but i'd like to be able
> > to use pd even if i sit in front of a french computer ...

Hey. I can't use _anything_ if i sit in front of a French computer, cause
it's got that AZERTY keyboard.

> Well, clearly the choice of localization should be a command line
> argument, not a compile-time option. But it is in DD, and that's great!

better than that, you can switch the language at run-time, and you can 
customize the language at run-time.

type this command in the Tcl box:

  say file "Fly"

and then press Ctrl+N to get:

 | Fly Edit View Find Put Media Window   Help |
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