Arduino IDE I18 in the making  dcuartiellesApril 3rd, 2012
Check how the translation of the IDE is coming together. So far,
after just 4 days in the making, we have 18 full translations
and yet another 7 in the making. This prototype of the IDE boots
in your local language. There is no way to select the language
from a menu or similar, it just recognizes your preferred
language in your computer and it boots that way. The demo shows
how I change the language in my computer and reboot Arduino in
some of the languages the system has been translated to already.
This is possible thanks to a patch by Shigeru Kanemoto, who
forked the IDE from GitHub and made a great contribution. One
way you can collaborate is by adding a drop down list to the
preferences dialog where users could use their preferred
language, also a dialog window allowing you select your language
the first time you boot the software could be nice.  Also, we
are lacking quite many languages, so if you have some time to
collaborate with this effort,