From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why emacs have not native language menu Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:42 +0900 Message-ID: <7056BAE9-002B-46B7-A60A-9EDE375392EE@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> References: <46A49912.9030203@luxdo.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185236292 22082 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2007 00:18:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:18:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 02:18:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ID86K-00055m-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ID86K-0007m1-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ID866-0007lN-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ID863-0007kZ-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ID863-0007kV-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp9.tiki.ne.jp ([218.40.30.106]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ID862-0003KP-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.11.4] (pl261.nas932.takamatsu.nttpc.ne.jp [210.136.181.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp9.tiki.ne.jp (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6O0Hhba021623 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:17:44 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 5.3-5.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45903 Archived-At: On 24 juil. 07, at 04:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:03:30 +0900 >> From: "lu@luxdo.jp" >> >> Today I tried vim 7.1,It have native language menu. >> Why emacs only have English menu? > > Because Emacs is a much more complex program, and therefore adding > localization support to it is a much harder job. And because no one > volunteered to do that job. There are plenty of applications that are more complex than emacs and they still had a correct localization. What is the technical issue with emacs ? FWIW, there were discussions in the past on the Aquamacs list to work on localizing the software but it was more the lack of specialists than the sheer complexity of the task that aborted the discussions. Could anyone provide guidance here ? Jean-Christophe Helary