[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[derek holzer]

Marc Lavallée wrote:

> Localization is common and considered a *good* thing.
> 
> ALL can also learn or remember a little bit of their own language to use 
> computers; it's part of the solution to keep and enhance our local 
> cultures. Since I'm French speaking, I prefer "commentaire" to "comment", 
> "symbole" to "symbol", "nombre" to "number", "bascule" to "toggle"...

Of course localization is a good thing, but let's consider WHY it should 
be done. If it's a matter of linguistic preference by longtime users, 
that is well and good and by all means knock yourselves out and have fun 
doing it! ;-)

But if it's a matter of attracting new users, or supporting users who 
don't understand English very well (such as about 90% of the Brasillians 
I workshopped with a month ago), then the docs and the help files need 
to be (improved and) translated before a localized GUI is going do them 
much good. In this respect, however, non-English character support would 
help greatly. Difficult steps, but necessary ones.

d.

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