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[133.232.153.210]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 133sm5075623pfy.106.2017.04.27.09.33.25 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:33:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <707ecda9-3700-bd87-9df8-630de8d9806d@F123.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c00::229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214356 Archived-At: > On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:24, Fernando Botelho = wrote: >=20 > I now have some difficult decisions to make. GNU Emaccs is the best = choice, given how seriously this group takes licensing, but the point of = my project is to popularize powerful free tools among non-technical = users for whom they could have a huge impact, such as the blind. Technical people (even blind) already have ccess to emacs. I'm not sure = non technical people have a lot of uses for emacs, so maybe you could = focus on other GNU software, like Nano etc. > But it is hard enough to convince people to adopt an entirely = different working paradigm, i.e. interface, now I have to also convince = them to adopt a new language? This essentially means keeping this tool = reserved for a small fraction of the intellectual elites in each = developing country. UI l10n requires a complex infrastructure that presently does not exist = for emacs. The best you can do now is provide access to the emacs = documentation, which would be a huge thing anyway. UI terms can be = considered arbitrary and once you start using them (after reading about = them in a translated doc set) they can be seen as some sort of "code". = No need to worry about the intellectual "elite". Even partial l10n can = do a lot to bridge linguistic gaps. Jean-Christophe=20=