From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185464216 27728 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 15:36:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 17:36:50 2007 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 4.50) id 1IE5OT-0006uD-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5OS-0007Ek-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5OP-0007Ef-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5ON-0007ET-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE5ON-0007EQ-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IE5OL-0002v9-Bq; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1EB12498; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: HELLO KITTY gang terrorizes town, family STICKERED to death! In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu\, 26 Jul 2007 08\:13\:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:75578 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Also, we should keep in mind that Lisp primitives (those implemented in > C) have their doc strings as C comments, not as C strings. The > infrastructure developed for Emacs l10n should provide solution for > the primitives as well, and the solution will have to be different > both from your suggestion above and from the traditional gettext-style > message catalog. Why would gettext not work here? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."