While I think this is doable with s-expressions, as Racket does today, I think it will be a great challenge to do in a practical way with typical syntax

Make RFC on internationalising racket2 #44 @spdegabrielle spdegabrielle opened this issue less than a minute ago Like string-constants-lib String constants support internationalisation via translation files so DrRacket UI can be used in a range of languages, but applied to the code. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/issues/44

Of course that makes the DrRacket “Determine language from source” weird.

I know there’s even some prior art of this in the javascript / npm world, some of the packages used in the implementation of the npm CLI are internationalized in that there’s a separate package for each language and the identifiers are exported with names in that language

the docs are translated too

@spdegabrielle could you remind me to dig up links to those packages this weekend and put them in the rfc issue?

@notjack yes sure

I’ll remind you tomorrow

thanks :heart: