Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 24 juil. 07, at 19:05, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 24.07.2007 um 02:17 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary:
>
> > What is the technical issue with emacs ?
>
> The texts are spread over hundred and more files. It's not only  
> menu entries and menu titles, it's also necessary to translate the  
> customisation buffers, the description of functions and variables.

This is not really a technical issue. Because there are ways to  
identify the strings to localize. I am more specifically asking about  
this.

> And once the act of translation is achieved: how do you describe a  
> problem with entry 5 of menu 3? By using the French names? By  
> counting? What when the order is changed? What when someone  
> decides, according to writing direction, to order the menus from  
> right to left?

I understand what you are saying but that is exactly the case for all  
the other localized software packages.

GNU has developped gettext but one of the flagship applications of  
the GNU project is not localized at all...


Jean-Christophe Helary