Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings)

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:04:25 +0200
>> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>> Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> the point is that Emacs is unlikely to be translated by the
>> translation teams that are already outh there if a completely new
>> mechanism that differs much from gettext is adopted.
> 
> What mechanism are we talking about?
> 
> Translators take a FOO.pot file, which is just a specially-formatted
> text file, copy it to a LANG.po file (where LANG is the target
> language acronym), and add a translated string to every original
> (usually English) string.  The result is still a text file, which is
> submitted to a central repository.  There's no mechanism involved
> here, except text editing and email (to submit the result).
> 
> Or did I misunderstand you?

I thought the suggestion was do do something in elisp that is independent from 
gettext.  That is the "mechanism".  Sorry for being unclear.

	Jan D.