Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 27 juil. 07, at 18:08, Jan Djärv wrote:
> I'd say no.  Once upon a time there was some swedish MS Excel  
> version that had
> all functions translated to swedih.  That didn't work so well when  
> trying to
> open a spreadsheet from the US...

This is obviously a design problem and has little to do with  
localization proper.

The localized functions must map to some language agnostic key in the  
code and then any localization of the function names (as is the case  
with OpenOffice.org right now) becomes a non problematic task.

But I am not arguing that current function names in emacs should be  
localized. For me they are _already_ arbitrary strings that bear  
little resemblance to English (defun anybody ?).

Jean-Christophe Helary