From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:57:40 +0200 Message-ID: <875yx8bquz.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <874kctcb97.fsf@cock.li> <837dhp3uqg.fsf@gnu.org> <2114291.0jFjTtfV1S@galex-713.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6399"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:F05LwrWPmYSM9ZTEYmMBA2xuRV4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 17 22:58:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m4rO7-0001Rc-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:58:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58054 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4rO6-0006zF-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4rNh-0006yt-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m4rNe-0006bM-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m4rNd-0000kl-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jul 2021 22:57:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:131805 Archived-At: Alexandre Garreau wrote: > Translating emacs would require to translate many > identifiers, it would actually amount to translate > a programming language I don't think anyone suggests doing that, I think what can be translated is *the interface*, so for example in the menu "Quit" or "Exit" or whatever it says (I'm not a menu user) _that_ would be translated. I don't think there are a lot of advantages doing this, and I do see some DISadvantages, so I think it shouldn't be done, actually, but the suggestion isn't "translate everything", that would be an insane, almost, rather than a bad suggestion. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal