Re: Translation of Emacs Info manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:42:19 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> People who wish to make a new translation,
> in Chinese for example, will probably need to be skillful in Gnus
> and Emacs Lisp to understand what Lars meant in the manual.

That is generally bad, since most translators are not programmers.
It is for this reason that program developers are generally requested
to write code that produces text messages in a way that a message's
intent is clear without looking at the code which produces it.