Re: Emacs i18n

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:43:43 -0800
> 
> On 3/6/19 12:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> We can start with a single catalog that handles core Emacs; we'll need
> >> to do that anyway. We can deal with packages later.
> > "Core" here being the C sources?  That's about 4% of the doc strings,
> > a drop in the sea.
> 
> Sure, but it should be relatively easy to also grab the doc strings from
> the Emacs core elisp code. GNU gettext already supports getting strings
> from Elisp code (this was for XEmacs) and it should be a relatively
> minor change to adapt it to also get doc strings.

That gets back again to the problems I mentioned.  E.g., what to do
with Org, which is in the core, but also distributed separately.