From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: i18n/l10n summary Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 18:33:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83a85xgfo2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0aca6c65-4610-44c2-99c4-6cbe7aa68c9a@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495985629 6952 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2017 15:33:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 15:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 28 17:33:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0CN-0001gP-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 17:33:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0CT-0002kQ-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 11:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0Bi-0002k7-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 11:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0Be-0006QP-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 11:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0Be-0006QL-Px; Sun, 28 May 2017 11:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4214 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dF0Be-0001EX-0n; Sun, 28 May 2017 11:32:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <0aca6c65-4610-44c2-99c4-6cbe7aa68c9a@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 28 May 2017 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:215287 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > Is the idea that something will be done so that, for example, > `message' automatically uses a translation of the message to > the user's currently preferred language? I.e., if that is > what is planned, isn't it perhaps too systematic - all or > nothing? > > If so, then perhaps there should be a way to easily, from > Lisp, specify the target language explicitly - e.g. by an > optional `message' argument or (better, because the scope > is controllable without changing the `message' calls) by > binding a variable. (let ((current-language-environment "FOO")) (message "FOOBAR")) > And in that case, there should perhaps be a user option > that overrides such a language choice by Lisp code. M-x set-language-environment RET