From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:09:00 +0300 Message-ID: References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185476966 12207 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2007 19:09:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:09:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 26 21:09:24 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 1IE8i7-0000Ep-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:09:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE8i6-0005OG-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE8hz-0005Lu-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IE8hx-0005Lh-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IE8hx-0005La-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IE8hw-0007WN-Qm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-17-178.inter.net.il [80.230.17.178]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id IMA90195 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:08:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:37 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:75602 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:36:37 +0200 > > 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? I didn't know gettext supported message strings in comments. Does it? If it does, how does the problem of marking the strings with _() in C/C++ (or rather lack thereof), to get their translations looked up, get solved?