From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:11:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <46A8B498.1070502@gnu.org> <46A8C099.6060401@gnu.org> <46A8C8A9.2070909@gnu.org> <7AF35BDF-18C0-4650-884A-3FB42EEA389C@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <46A8CF66.4050402@gnu.org> <3A735187-31F6-47CB-A632-DB38D224564B@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185631812 10471 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2007 14:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 28 16:10:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IEmzd-0002KA-2Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEmzc-0002bk-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEmz4-0002Cx-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEmz4-0002Ch-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEmz3-0002CZ-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEmz3-0001MK-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEn0x-0004bE-FO; Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:11:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <3A735187-31F6-47CB-A632-DB38D224564B@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:22:46 +0900) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75747 Archived-At: There is absolutely _no_ need whatsoever for Japanese people to learn _any_ bit of English to become excellent programmers. You may be right. I suspect, however, that many of them need to learn English to read less-popular technical material which is not so widely translated. Be that as it may, it doesn't change the situation for us. No other language approaches English in its suitability for being read by programmers (and users) around the world. It is a GNU standard that names, comments, and manuals be written in English.