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Ai Boon Tan
Member

Hi there.  I have been asked by a friend how to download a Scratch program in Chinese.  She tried changing the language to Chinese on a Scratch program that had been downloaded in English by her son. The instructions in the command blocks were the only things that changed to Chinese.

I have been informed that she needs to download a Chinese program into her computer and then download the Scratch program. Is that the right way to do it? Please recommend a Chinese software program that she can download from the internet.

Thank you.

Bests regards,

Ai Boon

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Fong Kuen Kan
Member
Hi, Karen.

I wonder could the Canvas accept Chinese Characters?

I could draw the sprite in the form of Chinese Characters in the year 2016 but it is no longer viable now.
I have tried using the vector mode and bitmap mode, yet failed to do so. Could this feature be restored in the Scratch 3.0 version, please?

Thank you.
Ai Boon Tan
Member

Thanks Karen. I shall wait and see if any other scratcher can help me with this. : )

 

Ai Boon

Karen Brennan
Member

>The instructions in the command blocks were the only things that changed to Chinese.

Yes, that's how Scratch works -- it can only translate the finite set of known blocks. (It would be very challenging to have Scratch translate all user-generated strings as well.)

> I have been informed that she needs to download a Chinese program into her computer and then download the Scratch program. Is that the right way to do it? 

I don't know how to do it in an automated way. (As opposed to manually translating each string...) Maybe others have ideas about your proposal.