Re: [Texmacs-dev] Over zealous translations

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> I've tried using TeXmacs with a non-english interface
> language. I can understand Russian and French, so
> I tried these two.
>
> I've noticed strange translations in both languages.
> When TeXmacs makes an automatic backup of the open
> document, it announces so on the status bar.
> It says "saved /home/user/file~". Now, it is
> natural that the word "saved" is translated into
> other languages, and it is. However, the word
> "home" is also translated. This is wrong, however.
> The same thing happens in other places, for
> example the name of the "Axiom" CAS gets translated
> in the Sessions menu.
>
> There should be some way to tag strings that should
> not be translated when the interface is in a non-english
> language.

Yes, this is a problem which is known since long,
but we have not had time to fix it yet...