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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

> Anyway, I've taken a look into etc/TODO, and many items seem to be a bit
> over my head. Just out of curiosity, what does exactly mean
> "Internationalize Emacs's messages."?

It means teach Emacs to display messages in the locale-specific language, 
not just in US English.  It's the equivalent of gettext-izing Emacs 
(except that in Emacs, this is more complicated since parts of the source 
are in Lisp).

There was a long discussion on emacs-devel about the various aspects of 
this several months ago.