Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juri Linkov writes:
 > > The question is "Too ugly?"
 > 
 > Perhaps less ugly would be not to add special markers to each and every
 > message, but to translate existing messages internally (e.g. in the
 > function `message', in functions that display menus or doc-strings)
 > depending on the current language environment like `tutorial' does
 > automatically selecting the language of the tutorial.

The problem is that the *human* translators need the markers to know
what to translate.