Re: How to localise emacs to french ?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

gelinp38@gmail.com writes:

> Hi,
>
> I found french-utf8.pl script to localise emacs menu items to french. But I 
> fail to load it. To do so I add this lines into .emacs file :
>
> ;; --------------------------------------------
> ;; Tell emacs where is your personal elisp lib dir
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elisp")
>
> ;; load the packaged named xyz.
> (load-library "french-utf8.pl")
> ;; --------------------------------------------
>
> The result is a warning and menu always in french :
>
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading 
> `/home/gelinp/.emacs':
>
> File error: Cannot open load file, french-utf8
>
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
> cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
> the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
> Is .pl files sames as .el scripts ? Do I need to modify the .emacs file ?

'.pl' files are perl files.

You don't localize emacs from emacs lisp, because a lot of strings are
used and referenced from C code.

You have to do it from the source distribution of emacs, apparently, by
putting this french-utf8.pl file in some specific place in the sources
directory, and then compiling emacs will run this script and add the
French strings.  I don't know the details, but do read the comment in
french-utf8.pl and perhaps some further documentation in the place where
you found it.


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