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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: Emacs and gettext
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 11:49:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9743-Sat06Dec2003114949+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fzfyol36.fsf@mano.mano> (zeus@emacs.cl)

> From: zeus@emacs.cl (Jonathan Gonzalez V.)
> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:18:05 -0300
> 
> Why Emacs don't use gettext to have translations ??

Several reasons:

  - we need a Lisp binding of gettext to translate messages embedded
    in the Lisp code
  - Emacs has its own code to handle non-ASCII characters which seems
    like a waste to ignore
  - no one stepped forward to work on this

      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-06  9:49 UTC|newest]

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2003-12-06  0:18 Emacs and gettext Jonathan Gonzalez V.
2003-12-06  9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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