Calculate's characters

[timClicks]

Calculate doesn't look like a calculator, it looks like a computer. In principle, I think that the software should be able to translate any characters.

Some recommended changes:

Enter => =

• => × / => ÷

[cjl]

adding gary as a cc. Who is maintaining Calculate now?

[garycmartin]

Replying to cjl:

adding gary as a cc. Who is maintaining Calculate now?

I make Calculate releases these days, some minor patches, and testing, but I liaise with Reinier when it's more than that. Regarding this ticket, the symbols are all in the locale files so there is nothing to patch in the source. Actually if you run Calculate in Spanish, who ever localised there already went with the * => × and / => ÷ characters. I don't have a strong opinion about the suggested change, but I'd not object.

[sascha_silbe]

cjl and I talked about this on #sugar. He considers  this patch good to go from an i18n perspective.

It would be nice to either land the patch (preferred) or drop it. It's been in the queue for over nine months now...

[cjl]

+1 on landing it

[garycmartin]

OK I'm landing this in the next Calculate release, but it has almost zero effect in English locales other than the '=' sign instead of 'Enter', as the /po translations override the default new symbols. So po files need the * and / symbols removed (empty strings get replaced with default symbol). I've hacked at least the en and en_US po files in my local clone for the release I'm about to make.

[cjl]

Replying to garycmartin:

OK I'm landing this in the next Calculate release

Give me an hour or so before you build and I'll run through the PO files and commit where needed.