Re: GNU Emacs and the translation domain "gnulib"

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Paul,

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Although Emacs uses some Gnulib modules, it doesn't use translations or 
> the gettext function so it won't use the "gnulib" translation domain. 
> Also, Emacs developers prefer using less Gnulib code when possible.
> ...
> With that in mind I am planning to have Emacs avoid gnulib-i18n

That's the correct approach. You can do the same thing in the 'gzip' package
as well (with is also not internationalized).

Note that there will still be a couple of invocations of dgettext("gnulib",...)
at runtime. Since there is no corresponding bindtextdomain("gnulib",...) call
in the code, these dgettext invocations will return the argument string
unchanged. This is not speed-critical, therefore it does not require further
optimization.

> I'd like to install the attached doc patch into Gnulib.

The patch is perfect as well.

Bruno