[Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

Massa, Harald Armin chef at ghum.de
Fri Aug 27 12:00:13 CEST 2010


>
> Incidentally, on the topic of translating keywords and such, it looks
> like one project to do so, Chinese Python, hasn't been updated since
> 2004: http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/news/news.html
>
> I just don't think there's much demand for translating the keywords.
>
> I really want to to beg everybody to never localize the keywords. Microsoft
did this with their Word and Excel-Functions, and it is a source of
frustration.

While learning any programming language, you're learning new concepts
anyway. new concepts = new words.

Harald


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