From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TUTORIAL.de updated Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:02:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20120119.140203.338008870.wl@gnu.org> References: <87pqegcb3c.fsf@web.de> <20120119.103712.525711725.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326978155 11507 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2012 13:02:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:02:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: parozusa@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 14:02:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnrdN-0003uh-79 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:02:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnrdM-0008CO-9j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:02:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnrdE-0008C3-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnrdA-000893-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:02:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:39295) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rnrd9-00088S-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2012 13:02:08 -0000 Original-Received: from 77.119.200.131.wireless.dyn.drei.com (EHLO localhost) [77.119.200.131] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 19 Jan 2012 14:02:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #54312696 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18FUR4Vb0QFLWGCJs+xZPsk3j0ig6t6dSmt9jD+vo MffUueh09cXtis In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4rc1 on Emacs 24.0.92.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147725 Archived-At: >> The section `MULE' (which doesn't exist in TUTORIAL) could >> certainly be improved. > > Or, rather, removed? Translations of the tutorial are not supposed > to have text that doesn't exist in the English tutorial. Hmm. > If we allow that, we will have a tremendous maintenance problem on > our hands, whereby maintainers cannot be sure they control what is > or isn't in the package. The section how to select a German input method, and how to select Latin-1 encoding (and now UTF-8) was there from the very beginning of the translation. > If a translator wants to suggest additions, she should do it first > in the English tutorial. Well, a typical US user doesn't need to know how to enter foreign languages, does she? Werner