--- Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Asia: > > > > Python should be *completely* internationalized > for > >Mandarin, Japanese, and possibly Hindi and Korean. > >Not just identifiers. I'm talking the entire > >language, keywords and all. > > > btw. Mandarin is a spoken dialect Chinese, what > you're actually asking > for is a Simplified-Chinese version of Python. >
I'm just trying to divide-and-conquer the problem of promoting Python literacy in the world. To the extent that you have a billion people in the world who all speak/write a mostly common language, I wonder if you wouldn't try to go even further than PEP 3131 and truly translate Python to Chinese, whatever that means. I'm wondering if all the English keywords in Python would present too high a barrier for most Chinese people--def, if, while, for, sys, os, etc. So you might need to go even further than simply allowing identifiers to be written in Simplified-Chinese. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
