[IPython-dev] Internationalisation and creating domain specific Help items

Matthias Bussonnier bussonniermatthias at gmail.com
Wed May 28 12:45:49 EDT 2014


> Le 28 mai 2014 à 16:44, Ozan Çağlayan a écrit :
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> 3) I think that there are four components of an IPython system that may need three methods: HTML, JavaScript, the server, and the kernel. Remember that the decimal place separation, and dates can change syntactical format, in addition to just changing text. Also, there are other kernels beyond CPython, which might change even more in a different language context.


Decimal place and separation should **never** be internationalized. (except maybe in non selectable, carefully chosen UI element)
I reserve a special place in hell for people that make things like that happen through OS or Software upgrade. 

In a more calm way, I do think that internationalization of a kernel is a bad idea. You shouldn't  have half internationalized 
things. And because of the huge amount  library you will not be able to fully translate kernels.

Beside, especially in software, you can easily translate things in the wrong way which hurt googlability and leads to things like 

"Ouvrir le Panda Roux" (which read as rip open the red panda) instead of Launch FireFox [1]

I do not know about your experience in having non-english software installed, but it is the bane of the existence 
of most researcher in my lab. Special though to my ex-officemate that had German Laptop/os, with a French-translated 
Software, manual in english and had to type greek-like things sometime.

I know of at least 1 os manufacturer that did it almost right, on my computer I can actually do 
`cd Desktop`, and it put me on the folder "Bureau", or search "keychain" and it finds the "Trousseau d'access".
So it Does display one thing but search also in the english-invisible string which partially help. 

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M

[1] No firefox is not Renard de feu : http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.html


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