Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.07.2007 um 14:30 schrieb Pascal Bourguignon:

> emacs is a programming language with a library for textual user  
> interfaces.
>
> Asking for a localization of emacs is the same as asking for a
> localization of C++.  Where do you start, and where do you stop???

Yes, that's another item: a function or variable name in English  
describes itself to most GNU Emacs users. I often wonder whether I  
should use English or German names for variables or macros in LaTeX,  
Shell, or Perl. When I am sure that the source won't reach the  
Internet, then German is fine.

And now imagine the function or variable names are also written in  
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Indic, Cyrillic letters ...


Anyway, I think and feel an "official" interface for Unicode enabled  
localisation of menus and their entries and of messages in *Messages*  
buffer and/or echo area is needed. There is no need to let the nice  
Latin script dominate the whole world.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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