Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings

[Jan Djärv]

Jason Rumney skrev:
> Jan Djärv wrote:
> > End users don't care.  As a translator, I do care.  There are existing
> > translations in gettext format I'd like to reuse if I was to translate
> > Emacs.  Not sure I can take on such a huge job though :-)
>
> As I understand it, there are several aspects to gettext.

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> The .PO file format - This is what I think you mean when you say that
> translators do care. We can support this independently of whether we use
> gettext or not.

Yes, that and the tools that can take similar translations from several 
programs and use them.  Not part of gettext per se.

> The gettext runtime API - for looking up translated strings. This is
> what I mean when I say that neither end users nor translators care
> whether we use it or not. It seems that the job this does is quite
> simple to implement, so I don't think there is a big benefit in sticking
> with it where there are obviously better ways of doing it (in the case
> of doc-strings at least).

The downside is the maintenance burden.

        Jan D.