Make RFC on internationalising racket2 about rhombus-prototype HOT 8 OPEN

I think that two productive things in this realm would be (1) integrating a notion of language into Scribble and (2) moving from exceptions that just strings to a huge number of Java-style exceptions with all the fields. The best example of this second point is the contract system. It has a huge amount of interesting information embedded in the string representation of the error.

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Of course this makes the DrRacket "Determine language from source" weird.

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#lang is very difficult to internationalize, but you can use #! instead.

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Related work: the javascript package cacache on npm has multiple localized APIs, with the documentation and the library's exported identifiers available in both English and Spanish. I would be very happy to see something similar in the Racket world.

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Changes to infrastructure must be made to support easy creation and integration of translations.
Documentations, main site, etc.

Another place is tools, like raco for example.

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I mean, the grammar of Racket is really:

#lang <id>
<whatever>

Is #lang and <id> supposed to be i18n-able?

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@sorawee yes
and also right to left like Arabic

لغة مضرب#
(Just a guess

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@gus-massa what makes it difficult?

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