Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n

[tomas]

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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:22:50PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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 [...]

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

...and then there are menus and other things. You'd have to locate every
function bound to display a user-facing string (and what do you do about
messages being "synthesised" programatically?).

I think it does make sense to mark the strings themselves: "this is a
translatable string".

Regards
- -- tomás
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