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Re: Emacs i18n
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs i18n |
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Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:44:10 -0500 |
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> Second, I don't understand why we are still talking about 'message'.
> Most of the user interaction in Emacs that will benefit the most from
> translation is not messages we show in the echo area: Emacs actually
> doesn't chatter there too much. Most of the stuff that IMO is much
> more important to have translated are the doc strings.
I think it would be most natural to handle doc strings through
a special mechanism. We have already had special mechanisms
for them -- I don't know whether we still do. But it is easy
for the compiler to find them all and put them in a file
for translations.
> . Do we use a separate message catalog for each Lisp package, or a
> single catalog for all of Emacs? Each alternative has its merits
> and demerits. For example, if we go with separate catalogs, then
> how do we make the correct bindtextdomain call, given that packages
> call each other?
I think they have to be separate, and we can use something like
lexical binding to specify the right one for each file.
This is worth a special mechamism for.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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