Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  bugs@gnu.support,  dimech@gmx.com,  abrochard@gmx.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org,  all_but_last@163.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 01:37:43 -0800
> 
> >> The main one that I know of is Firefox, which by my count has 96
> >> translations.
> >
> > I didn't mean one program, I meant the total count.  It should be
> > indicative to how easy it is to find people who are both programmers
> > and can succinctly express themselves on technical issues in their
> > native languages.  IME, it is very hard to find such people.
> 
> I don't know the full count, I only know that Mozilla uses it for
> Firefox as well as all of their web pages, and that most of those
> translations are maintained by volunteers. Those volunteers are clearly
> capable of doing the job, since there are 96 actively-maintained
> translations for Firefox, which is a complex application which is hard
> to translate.

Being able to program for one project in that project's programming
language doesn't mean the same people can do that for another project
written in a different PL.  That's the main disadvantage of your
proposal: you require the translators to be proficient as programmers
in the project's PL, not just in their language.