From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs localization (Re: Why emacs have not native language menu) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:04:10 +0200 Message-ID: <46A5B27A.50700@gmail.com> References: <46A49912.9030203@luxdo.jp> <7056BAE9-002B-46B7-A60A-9EDE375392EE@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <18085.18857.593591.502885@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1D62F025-5FD1-49AE-8C34-1F04554ECBFE@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185264296 23521 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2007 08:04:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 24 10:04:53 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 1IDFNx-0003Cb-Rg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:04:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDFNx-00046p-7E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDFNf-00046j-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IDFNd-00046X-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IDFNd-00046U-Da for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:04:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IDFNc-0002o2-Pm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:04:29 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:64809 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IDFNa-0004aU-7i; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:04:27 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1D62F025-5FD1-49AE-8C34-1F04554ECBFE@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000759-1, 2007-07-24), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IDFNa-0004aU-7i. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IDFNa-0004aU-7i 3d619169263515eafab99b9515bca50a X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:45913 Archived-At: > All the functions are documented in English in their code and to get a > proper localization of that, or at least of a basic core features (like > functions that available from the UI for a start) would require to > remove all strings and put them in locale separated files that emacs > would load based on the environment. Is that correct ? You do not have to remove the strings from the function. You can change them at when they are going to be used in the help system instead.