[PRL] On PLT Scheme

[Eli Barzilay]

On Apr 14, Kenichi Asai wrote:
> Before I go directly to the PLT-Scheme mailing list, I think it is a
> good idea to write to PRL.

The PLT list would probably be a better place for such questions.


> Today, I installed (finally!) the latest MacOSX (Aqua) version of
> PLT Scheme on my PowerBook, and I noticed two things.
> 
> - When I first run DrScheme, it asked me a (natural) language to
> interact with DrScheme.  Among the choices, there are English,
> French, etc., but no Japanese.  If this is simply a matter of
> providing translation for all the messages in DrScheme, I might be
> able to make it and test it on my computer.

Except for the translation, there is a technical issue now of how
strings are represented.  The upcoming version of DrScheme will
support unicode.

You can look in plt/collects/string-constants to see what's involved,
and also to see that some languages like both chinese versions are
pretty much empty...


> - The key layout I use is Dvorak rather than Qwerty.  It goes almost
> fine in DrScheme, but when I press control key (e.g., when I press
> Ctrl-H for backspace), it behaves as though the key layout was
> Qwerty.  Are there any ways to fix this?

This is a known (and still open) problem -- see the discussion at

  http://bugs.plt-scheme.org/query/?cmd=view+audit-trail&pr=5489

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