From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.blogging Subject: Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:20:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1e7a74211001281954h1295a717id942a4405dc98b25@mail.gmail.com> <87vdekbt60.fsf@everybody.org> <1e7a74211001310729s6b0c506cv41cdea9b19274fba@mail.gmail.com> <87fx5l8kat.fsf@everybody.org> <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> <87hbq1rw4n.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vdehozth.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265048531 22732 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 18:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , "Mark A. Hershberger" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacsweblogs@nongnu.org, smc To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 19:22:05 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc0uJ-0002r7-Tr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:21:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc0uJ-0003Cl-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc0uC-0003B9-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:21:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59670 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc0uB-0003A7-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:21:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc0tR-0001gz-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:35748) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc0tQ-0001bU-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8211C15711; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:20:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.166]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD659018F; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:20:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.166]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NYHyE7OVb2fx; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:20:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.152.151.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.152.151]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:20:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id A69BDCA297; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:20:45 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: The Korean War must have been fun. In-Reply-To: <87vdehozth.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:22:50 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:120786 gmane.emacs.blogging:89 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > The problem is that the *human* translators need the markers to know > what to translate. The translators don't work with the source files, they work with the po files. The markers are necessary for the pot creator, but as the GCC example shows there are other methods besides marking the translatable strings explicitly. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."