turtle_demo_v3.patch looks good to me.  I have satisfied myself that the AppleScript works OK with a non-English system.  And, while it is a bit of a kludge for OS X and assuming the rest of the change works OK on Windows and Linux, I would recommend to Terry that we proceed with this approach for 3.5, 3.4 if someone feels strongly about it, and skip 2.7.  If a better way to do it turns up, we can add that later.  Time to move on to other things.