From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ? Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2623E5C5-4D40-4C9F-BFF6-181D2E69F984@gmail.com> <831srgnuyc.fsf@gnu.org> <6BED2506-B1C2-4005-AFDE-2BF04209F16C@gmail.com> <83zie3mndz.fsf@gnu.org> <83inkrm1ca.fsf@gnu.org> <7C2AD6EB-134C-4013-BE3F-6B302A9DBF8D@gmail.com> <67076bf4-0272-0219-88aa-1f6410fe92de@cs.ucla.edu> <7F5DC149-A21B-4A0F-B1EC-3CC66DD24873@gmail.com> <83y3tmkr1v.fsf@gnu.org> <8117F5A0-6BFC-4A83-BDE9-67E3EDBE9A1C@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495770645 31893 195.159.176.226 (26 May 2017 03:50:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 03:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 26 05:50:40 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 1dE6Gs-00087k-TV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 May 2017 05:50:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dE6Gy-0001im-5B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40997) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dE6GL-0001hK-UN for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dE6GL-0004WH-9M for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dE6GJ-0004Vt-0j; Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dE6GI-00049z-3t; Thu, 25 May 2017 23:50:02 -0400 In-reply-to: <8117F5A0-6BFC-4A83-BDE9-67E3EDBE9A1C@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 25 May 2017 06:29:33 +0900) 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:215206 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For example, providing a way to display a > > translation of a given string to a given language. Is that something > > you'd like to work on? > Yes, very much. Considering my current understanding of Emacs and of Elisp, it's going to take some time. But yes. Thank you for working on this. Most GNU packages have translations for their messages -- Emacs is a sad exception. We really should set up a scheme for Emacs to handle translations of is messages. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.