[Python-ideas] Support localization of unicode descriptions

[David Mertz]

The problem with non-canonical translations of the Unicode character names
is that there is not one unique possible rendering into language X.
Equally, I could find synonyms in general English for the names, but one
would be official, the others at best informally clarifying.

For informational purposes I think it's great to have a third party project
to find out "Unicode character named 'Something In English' is roughly
translated as <whatever> in your native language." But it's hard to see how
an unofficial loose cross-language dictionary should be party of the
standard library.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 5:11 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 7/10/2018 4:45 AM, Pander wrote:
>
> > This is a third party initiative. The translations are contributed by
> > volunteers. I have talked with Python core developers and they suggested
> > to post this here, as it is for them out of scope for Python std lib.
>
> Python-ideas list is for discussion of python and the stdlib library.
> This is not a place for prolonged discussion of pypi projects.
> It *is* a place to discuss adding a hook that can be used to access
> translations.
>
> There are both official doc translations, accessible from the official
> doc pages, and others that are independent.  The official ones, at
> least, are discussed on the doc-sig list
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/doc-sig
> There are currently 7 languages and coordinators listed at
> https://devguide.python.org/experts/#documentation-translations
> 4 have progressed far enough to be listed in the drop-down box on
> https://docs.python.org/3/
>
> I should think that these people should be asked if they want to be
> involved with unicode description translations.  They should certainly
> have some helpful advice.
>
> The description vocabulary is rather restricted, so a word translation
> dictionary should be pretty easy.  For at least for some languages, it
> should be possible to generate the 200000 description translations from
> this. The main issues are word order and language-dependent 'word'
> units.  Hence, the three English words "LATIN SMALL LETTER" become two
> words in German, 'LATEINISCHER KLEINBUCHSTABE', versus three words in
> Spanish, but in reverse order, 'LETRA PEQUEÑA LATINA'.  It is possible
> that the doc translators already uses translation software that deal
> with these issues.
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
>
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