[linux-audio-user] Re: Squeak (was Software suitable for children)

[Brad Fuller]

David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 11 December 2006 21:47, linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.edu 
> 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.