[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: i18n - Revisited
From: |
Jean-Christophe Helary |
Subject: |
Re: i18n - Revisited |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:33:23 +0900 |
> On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:24, Fernando Botelho <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I now have some difficult decisions to make. GNU Emaccs is the best choice,
> given how seriously this group takes licensing, but the point of my project
> is to popularize powerful free tools among non-technical users for whom they
> could have a huge impact, such as the blind.
Technical people (even blind) already have ccess to emacs. I'm not sure non
technical people have a lot of uses for emacs, so maybe you could focus on
other GNU software, like Nano etc.
> But it is hard enough to convince people to adopt an entirely different
> working paradigm, i.e. interface, now I have to also convince them to adopt a
> new language? This essentially means keeping this tool reserved for a small
> fraction of the intellectual elites in each developing country.
UI l10n requires a complex infrastructure that presently does not exist for
emacs. The best you can do now is provide access to the emacs documentation,
which would be a huge thing anyway. UI terms can be considered arbitrary and
once you start using them (after reading about them in a translated doc set)
they can be seen as some sort of "code". No need to worry about the
intellectual "elite". Even partial l10n can do a lot to bridge linguistic gaps.
Jean-Christophe