Etoys in Chinese?

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On 18.01.2012, at 06:42, Christine Murakami wrote:

> Hi everyone!
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> I have a native Chinese student who is planning to translate our music lessons into Mandarin. She looked online for a Chinese version of Etoys, but was unable to get it. When we tried to change the language in our regular version of Etoys (v 4.1.1) it said that it couldn’t install the font.

It should work on Linux, where Etoys can make use of the system fonts. This was added in particular for the OLPC XO laptop. On Mac and Windows it would require adding a Chinese font package (similarly to how we support e.g. Japanese) but nobody has created that yet.

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Christine Murakami
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Chinese font package has been added to Etoys several months ago.

You can download an alpha version from here:
http://etoys.squeak.org/download/4.1/Etoys-To-Go-4.1.2-alpha5.zip


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On 18.01.2012, at 17:28, Xin Wang wrote:

> Chinese font package has been added to Etoys several months ago.
>
> You can download an alpha version from here:
> http://etoys.squeak.org/download/4.1/Etoys-To-Go-4.1.2-alpha5.zip
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Oh. I forgot about that. Sorry. Yay! Will be in next release :)

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Thanks! I'll give it a try!

-----Original Message-----
From: Xin Wang [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:29 PM
To: Christine Murakami
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Subject: Re: [squeakland] Etoys in Chinese?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Christine Murakami <[hidden email]> wrote:

Chinese font package has been added to Etoys several months ago.

You can download an alpha version from here:
http://etoys.squeak.org/download/4.1/Etoys-To-Go-4.1.2-alpha5.zip


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王欣 (Xin Wang)
blog: http://dram.me/
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Just wanted to report back that it works beautifully. Thanks for the help!

Christine

-----Original Message-----
From: Xin Wang [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:29 PM
To: Christine Murakami
Cc: [hidden email]; Vera Chi
Subject: Re: [squeakland] Etoys in Chinese?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Christine Murakami <[hidden email]> wrote:

Chinese font package has been added to Etoys several months ago.

You can download an alpha version from here:
http://etoys.squeak.org/download/4.1/Etoys-To-Go-4.1.2-alpha5.zip


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王欣 (Xin Wang)
blog: http://dram.me/
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