From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, help-texinfo@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org
Subject: Re: [help-texinfo] Re: coding systems vs. info files
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:28:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uy80hw68u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wy9ime9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:03:10 +0900)
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:03:10 +0900
> Cc: help-texinfo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> > Right, it should not use LANG for output (this is nothing new), but
> > neither I nor anyone has implemented it yet. (Bruno informed me it is
> > not so easy to switch languages in gettext, unfortunately, which is what
> > it boils down to.)
>
> Hmm, I thought there was a function "dgettext" to allow explicitly
> specifying the language for a given lookup.
The problem is that makeinfo also has its messages to the user which
should be displayed in the current locale's language. So it needs to
change the language back and forth, depending on the output stream.
And that is something gettext doesn't like too much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-12 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-09 1:58 coding systems vs. info files Miles Bader
2006-02-09 14:54 ` Jesper Harder
2006-02-09 19:14 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-11 0:13 ` [help-texinfo] " Karl Berry
2006-02-11 1:11 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-12 1:40 ` Karl Berry
2006-02-12 10:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-02-12 21:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-02-13 17:48 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-13 22:07 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-02-11 22:03 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-12 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-09 17:28 ` Juri Linkov
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