Re: Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings)

[Jan Djärv]

Jean-Christophe Helary skrev:
> On 31 juil. 07, at 12:38, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > > If so, what would it do if you try to edit the file?
> >
> >     The edit would modify the file.
> >
> >     If the documentation had been in the oiginal English then an edit
> >     would modify that original English. If the displayed documentation
> >     were to be the Japanese string, then the Japanese data would be
> >     edited (to eventually be later saved).
> >
> > That would be very hard to do.
>
> I understand that.
>
> If automatic display based on locale information is difficult, do you 
> think a command that simply overwrites the documentation with an 
> available translation would be easier to implement ? Instead of 
> overwriting the strings (which may not be a practical solution), the 
> command would simply re-generate the code file from the translation 
> database stored strings.
>
> In the end, the user would have a choice between the default English and 
> any translation available, and even once "overwritten" the files could 
> be reverted to their original English state.
>
> What matters is that the coder has easy access to the translation 
> database in a way or another _during_ the coding process without having 
> to refer to a separate file.

I'm not sure how this would work.  Say I have the swedish locale.  If I edit 
an english doc string, how does Emacs know if I'm translating it to swedish or 
correcting the english one?

        Jan D.