Hello, Walter, thank you very much for your interest.
We are now opening the page gnu.manticore.es to register
people interested in the project:
The central idea of the project is to test for
so called
"internationalization" (i18n) of GNU Emacs
and further
"localization" (l10n). I.e. get all the
user interface available in
the user's native language.
The I18N/L10N is:
1 .- Mark in the source code strings candidates to be
translated (there are 95 files for version 23.1 marked on plan
test).
2 .- Generate the .pot file. 3 .- Create the spanish .po file, do some translations and testing.
4 .- Generate the .mo file. 5 .- Make tests by building and compiling the Emacs source code
at least with some of the files selected. Include the .mo file
in the new installation and see if the strings are translated properly.
6 .- The most important thing at this time would report the
compilation conditions: Operating System with
version, version of Emacs, hardware, etc. and their
results.
Successful results would be reported to the emacs-devel list for
show that it is possible to use the conventional method of GNU
Gettext for the sake of an Emacs available in any language and so they can integrate this feature in a future version of the program.
While the development core team of GNU Emacs is decided,
our web is advancing on the translation of the program manuals
and its extension language, as well as for complementary programs
such as Info, Texinfo, etc.
We have now more than 20 manuals translated, including the Emacs manual, the Emacs Lisp Reference
manual, the Chassell Introduction, the Texinfo manual and many more. You can proceed to register as an user on the same page.