From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:18:39 +0100 Message-ID: <46AA0CCF.7060101@gnu.org> References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <871weuk228.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <46AA0789.2070705@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185549545 26231 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2007 15:19:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 17:18:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IERai-0003dQ-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IERah-0006TS-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IERad-0006SV-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IERab-0006SI-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IERab-0006SF-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IERaa-00014N-Cv; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC54251607; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:18:46 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) In-Reply-To: <46AA0789.2070705@swipnet.se> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75693 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv 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? I don't think we should constrain ourselves with gettext when it is not the best design for our purpose. Neither the end-users nor translators care what is under the hood.