From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.blogging Subject: Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:04:16 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hbq1rw4n.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <1e7a74211001281954h1295a717id942a4405dc98b25@mail.gmail.com> <87vdekbt60.fsf@everybody.org> <1e7a74211001310729s6b0c506cv41cdea9b19274fba@mail.gmail.com> <87fx5l8kat.fsf@everybody.org> <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265026557 1963 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 12:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Mark A. Hershberger" , smc , emacsweblogs@nongnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 13:15:53 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbvC3-0001bi-8o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:15:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbvC2-0000kN-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbvBx-0000i6-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54053 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbvBw-0000go-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:15:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbvBv-0002Qc-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:15:44 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out4.starman.ee ([85.253.0.6]:45733 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbvBu-0002QH-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:15:43 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.53.239.cable.starman.ee [82.131.53.239]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53333F4089; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:15:32 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:51:36 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:120775 gmane.emacs.blogging:86 Archived-At: > 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 (e.g. in the function `message', in functions that display menus or doc-strings) depending on the current language environment like `tutorial' does automatically selecting the language of the tutorial. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/