From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:31:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83tvgfbbrq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o97aq6gz.fsf@jidanni.org> <87tvgoud56.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83o96wk2mi.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1hjfvjd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871s3p0zdz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83h8ckezyt.fsf@gnu.org> <83o96qegv1.fsf@gnu.org> <32b1ab1b-bef4-629a-8830-b1dcc6915087@cs.ucla.edu> <83a7iae9va.fsf@gnu.org> <05ed2dec-2a84-f7dc-1af5-c9d923992785@cs.ucla.edu> <87bm2p56gu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <838sxrdgco.fsf@gnu.org> <862b9eb2-0662-41c5-fd17-3fa09fe2c1fe@cs.ucla.edu> <83y35rbvp4.fsf@gnu.org> <61e7475a-b5f6-22fc-0f48-8b68bf2c4573@cs.ucla.edu> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="134046"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 07 04:32:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jm8-000Yjl-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:32:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jm7-0005ck-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:32:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jlX-0005cf-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jlX-0002pD-29; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2452 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jlP-0007JL-Qv; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:32:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <61e7475a-b5f6-22fc-0f48-8b68bf2c4573@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:43:43 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:233877 Archived-At: > Cc: juri@linkov.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:43:43 -0800 > > On 3/6/19 12:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> We can start with a single catalog that handles core Emacs; we'll need > >> to do that anyway. We can deal with packages later. > > "Core" here being the C sources? That's about 4% of the doc strings, > > a drop in the sea. > > Sure, but it should be relatively easy to also grab the doc strings from > the Emacs core elisp code. GNU gettext already supports getting strings > from Elisp code (this was for XEmacs) and it should be a relatively > minor change to adapt it to also get doc strings. That gets back again to the problems I mentioned. E.g., what to do with Org, which is in the core, but also distributed separately.