From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:51:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837ge4hpco.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc1p9ggs.fsf@web.de>
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:30:11 +0200
>
> I don't have a good feeling about that. It's already lots of work to
> keep the English docstrings up to date. And if some volunteers leave,
> people are left with outdated docstrings in their language they count
> on.
>
> I'm not against localizing menus, but docstrings? Most of programmers
> will understand English, and binding so much work, constantly, for very
> few users? IMHO we should spend our time with other important tasks to
> improve user experience.
You are, in effect, saying that Emacs should not be localized. If doc
strings, echo-area messages, and help-echo messages are not to be
localized, what's the value of having single-word menus localized?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 7:29 Changing the language of gnus menu entries Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 14:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-24 15:14 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-24 16:41 ` Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-24 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2807.1380053246.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-24 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 13:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-25 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-09-25 18:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-25 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 20:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.2878.1380138900.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 21:15 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-26 8:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-26 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<8338oshfy5.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-25 20:08 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-25 20:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-25 23:09 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2886.1380150595.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 4:05 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-26 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 17:09 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2935.1380214979.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 17:22 ` Dan Espen
2013-09-26 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 20:37 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2964.1380232675.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 22:21 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <<slrnl496os.2vt.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
2013-09-26 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 19:15 ` Dale Snell
[not found] ` <mailman.2936.1380215384.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 20:44 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2954.1380222979.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 20:46 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-25 20:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.2876.1380136471.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 6:26 ` Jason Rumney
2013-09-27 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 0:37 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2861.1380124268.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 19:13 ` Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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