From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:07:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o97aq6gz.fsf@jidanni.org> <87tvgoud56.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83o96wk2mi.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1hjfvjd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871s3p0zdz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83h8ckezyt.fsf@gnu.org> <83o96qegv1.fsf@gnu.org> <32b1ab1b-bef4-629a-8830-b1dcc6915087@cs.ucla.edu> <83a7iae9va.fsf@gnu.org> <05ed2dec-2a84-f7dc-1af5-c9d923992785@cs.ucla.edu> <87bm2p56gu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <837edbdg33.fsf@gnu.org> <65e3fe78-3264-12ff-1edf-a05bfd86a9a9@cs.ucla.edu> <83zhq7bvsw.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgvzbbi1.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="148171"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: juri@linkov.net, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 08 05:07:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h26nH-000cSp-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26nG-0006k8-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26n8-0006ii-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26n8-00034r-OP; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:07:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h26n2-0005Pe-Nm; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:07:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83sgvzbbi1.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:37:42 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:233906 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. ]]] > (let* ((field (get-char-property pos 'field)) > (button (get-char-property pos 'button)) > (doc (get-char-property pos 'widget-doc)) > (text (cond (field "This is an editable text area.") > (button "This is an active area.") > (doc "This is documentation text.") > (t "This is unidentified text."))) > (widget (or field button doc))) > (when widget > (widget-browse widget)) > (message text))) We would need to make SOME sort of change in it, but change could be very simple. It could consist of writing a call to 'translate' around each of those string constants. Or we might adopt a reader syntax for translatable strings. That might be convenient, since we want these to be found by tools processing the code, not solely handled by executing the code. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)