Re: A system for localizing documentation strings

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 27 juil. 07, at 01:15, Jason Rumney wrote:

> > Also, a Lebanese developer who reads French would rather have French
> > as the default than any dialect of English.
> So we allow them to specify multiple languages in order of preference:
> (setq preferred-doc-language '(ar-LB, ar, fr))
> Only if translations for none of those languages exist do we give them
> the English doc string.

This is exactly what I proposed in my original mail. I am glad you  
eventually reached that conclusion.

> In case the locale matching string is not available (not  
> translated), a mechanism to display a prefered language, then the  
> default language should be implemented.


Jean-Christophe Helary