Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings

[Jan Djärv]

Jason Rumney skrev:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
> > Strings can be read into emacs, like the ones from the DOC file and
> > then passed to the gettext functions to be translated.
> It seems a little wasteful to me, to read a string from one docfile just
> so we can look it up in another. Why not look it up the doc we want
> directly?

We could easily make a locale specific DOC-file, like DOC.sv_SE.  But on the 
other hand, looking up strings like this is an interactive action, I'm not 
sure the performance hit is even visible.

> I don't think we should constrain ourselves with gettext when
> it is not the best design for our purpose.

No, but we must take care of C level strings also.

> Neither the end-users nor
> translators care what is under the hood.

End users don't care.  As a translator, I do care.  There are existing 
translations in gettext format I'd like to reuse if I was to translate Emacs. 
 Not sure I can take on such a huge job though :-)

        Jan D.