David Baron wrote:
On Monday 11 December 2006 21:47, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Smalltalk 80 is, well, 26 years old. Before Unicode so is incompatable
with mutlingual keyboard choices. No Hebrew for my daughter, not in UI
and cannot type it in to text objects either. Truetype fonts (newer than
smalltalk80) are beatutiful but they are also Unicode based nowadays.
I'm not a language expert, to say the least. I don't know about Hebrew
usage in Squeak. But, Unicode and multilingual support is supported (I
think from version 3.7 on, don't know.) If it isn't translated to Hebrew
yet, why not help us by doing so! I believe squeak in German, French,
Spanish and Japanese are available.
Today's True type fonts are also supported.
Bring up a squeak text widget and try to type in Hebrew. I go nothing in.
Hebrew support is more than Unicode--Hebrew and Arabic are right-to-left
languages. German, French, etc, do not require unicode to work. The Japanese
will argue the point.
If I knew enough computereze in Hebrew, I would love to do the translation.
However, I cannot read Hebrew computer stuff so well myself. My daughter
(remember, we are talking about stuff for kids) does not read English
computer stuff so well. Her KDE and locale is Hebrew. Mine is English.
Passing this along from the squeakland.org mailing list:
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Hi,
I have developped V-toys a visual programming language built with E-TOYS
and compatible with them.
V-toys is using tiles with icones instead of text.
So it is international and understandable in any language and project
can be shared esily.
I have translatede the car project which is the v-toys version of the
car piloted by the joystick
http://ofset.org:8000/super/213
You'll find more documentation here
http://community.ofset.org/wiki/V-toys
Sorry, the documentation is in french but there are lot of pictures and
many projects that you can download and try.Be carefull when you save a
project, ever stay down on the publish button to get the menu and choose
publish on a different server.
If you just hit Publish, the project will be saved back on the server.
In this case, immediately hit atlt/dot or apple/dot to stop the process.
