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Re: A system for localizing documentation strings
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: A system for localizing documentation strings |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:15:37 +0100 |
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Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Obviously English will be the default for English speaking
> communities, Portuguese for Portuguese speaking communities.
I don't think you understand what I mean here by "fallback". We won't
have translations covering all parts of Emacs in all languages
instantly. In the case that a translation in the user's preferred
language(s) is not available, we need to fall back on a default.
Consistently using English as that default makes more sense than getting
whatever language the developer originally wrote the documentation in.
> Besides, English is not the most widely understood language in the
> world today.
Would you care to elaborate? I'm not only talking about first languages
here.
> 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.
- Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jason Rumney, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jason Rumney, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jason Rumney, 2007/07/26
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, David Kastrup, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, David Kastrup, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, Kenichi Handa, 2007/07/27
- Re: A system for localizing documentation strings, David Kastrup, 2007/07/27