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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah@everybody.org>, smc <smc@manticore.es>,
	emacsweblogs@nongnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:22:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdehozth.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbq1rw4n.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

Juri Linkov writes:
 > > 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.

The problem is that the *human* translators need the markers to know
what to translate.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-01 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1e7a74211001281954h1295a717id942a4405dc98b25@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <87vdekbt60.fsf@everybody.org>
2010-01-31 15:29   ` [Emacsweblogs] i18n smc
2010-02-01  7:52     ` Mark A. Hershberger
2010-02-01  8:51       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-02-01 12:04         ` Juri Linkov
2010-02-01 13:22           ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-02-01 18:13             ` tomas
2010-02-01 18:20             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-01 21:45             ` i18n Juri Linkov
2010-02-01 16:01         ` [Emacsweblogs] i18n Stefan Monnier
2010-02-01 18:56           ` Drew Adams
2010-02-01 20:33             ` i18n Stefan Monnier
2010-02-01 21:36               ` [Emacsweblogs] i18n Drew Adams
2010-02-01 23:14                 ` i18n Stefan Monnier
2010-02-02  1:21               ` [Emacsweblogs] i18n Kenichi Handa

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