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Sorry. I will modify the instructions page to make it clearer.

Please do use the Russian replacement for "#" and anything else that will make using Blockly easier for beginners.

I don't think it's possible for a translator to replace periods with commas in numbers. Does Russian use a comma where English uses a decimal point?

We added support for having a sign after ordinal numbers for Hungarian. Let me know if it is needed for Russian.

Thank you for all of the care you are taking.

Espertus (talk)21:09, 26 October 2013

Not sure about ordinal numbers. To the best of my knowledge, it's quite abstract generalization of natural numbers, and such notion should not be presented in general programming system at all. ... Just get it! You are talking about regular meaning of the word, not about special math term (Hungary is famous for math school, and I was afraid they tried to overload the system with math). We have № before ordinal numbers but it's not math sign but rather bureaucratic. I believe it may serve for replacement of #. Probably in some context we may not need special mark for ordinals, I need a fresh look.

And Yes, we use comma in place of decimal point in English. Another place where I was probably mistaken: I followed English in expressions like if block, whereas in Russian it would be more natural to quote "if". I even changed somebody's translations.

MS (talk)23:05, 26 October 2013
 

Ellen, one more technical question: what can I do with sign for division: it's way too domestic, we use : instead. And more widely accepted / may work internationally I believe.

MS (talk)19:43, 27 October 2013

Thanks for mentioning this. Just to make sure I have it right, Russian uses a colon (":") where English uses "÷"?

I will make that settable per language.

Ellen Spertus (talk)20:26, 27 October 2013

Russian use : in arithmetic, while in algebra and informatics there is /

MS (talk)21:31, 27 October 2013