Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> writes:

> On 24 juil. 07, at 21:54, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> i think it is unlikely we (the participants of this thread) can
>> come up w/ a design as you suggest.
>
> I did not suggest much more than what already works in 99% of
> software packages around the world.
>
>> why don't you propose something, after studying things a bit?
>> then when people say "there are technical issues" you will know
>> what they are talking about because you will have come to
>> understand the (in)applicable techniques.
>
> No because the people who pretend that there are technical issues or
> that "it is impossible" do not make sense in the first place.
>
> It is not the technical issues that are (not) discussed here, but the
> mere idea of localizing emacs.
>
> I think it is more a psychological issue than a technical issue right
> now.


For example, people who had problems with localized software of all
nature and from all aspects of the software (code, data, user
interface, OS, file formats, user support, etc) and this for almost 30
years.

One selling points of GUI (and I won't even try to explain here why
GUI are bad, compared to CLI or just more textual interfaces like
emacs'), is exactly that it _avoids_ localization, because graphics
are more universal than text (even discounting the graphics that have
to be localized).


> It would be better if people who are not interested in localization
> stop replying to this thread and let others discuss possibilities.



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