From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:08:47 +0300 Message-ID: References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <871weuk228.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k5smqbtw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185538146 18250 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2007 12:09:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:09:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 14:09:00 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 1IEOcr-00017Q-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:08:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEOcq-0003KQ-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEOcn-0003HX-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEOcn-0003Gl-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEOcm-0003GY-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEOcm-000051-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-3-118.inter.net.il [83.130.3.118]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DFI84140 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:08:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87k5smqbtw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:75672 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: schwab@suse.de, > fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:18:35 +0900 > > The original string is in the DOC file, is it not? Yes. > > What am I missing here? > > I not sure, but I would guess that it's that gettext() can be called > on the value returned by a function. gettext() doesn't know or care > whether its argument is a literal string compiled into the binary or > extracted from an external file at runtime. Yes, that can be done. Thanks for showing me the light.