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