[PD] help patch translations

Jaime E Oliver jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com
Sat May 2 21:35:22 CEST 2015


Yes, I agree with this, at least in spanish it doesn't seem like a big deal to have object names in spanish. often they're close enough or exactly the same cos, osc, +, etc…

Help patches would be very helpful though…

J

On May 2, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I dispute the asertion that Pd objects have English names.
> I think it hardly matters what language you speak, you need to remember an arbitrary character string that represents some function. The string may act as a mnemonic of some kind but it almost never works to specify an object using an English term to denote its function.
> Of course this is only true for languages that can use an ASCII character set.
> How to write "uzi"  or "moses" in Chinese or Thai for example?
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
> What probably makes sense in the long run is for objects to have two names: internal name (aka current english name) and a display name (translated). I think that’s how Scratch does it, as all of their building blocks are translated in other languages too. We sat down with one of my German nephews and showed him scratch. The UI was in German *and* the objects were all in German too, which worked really nicely.
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