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Re: other serious problems with non-English tutorials


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: other serious problems with non-English tutorials
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:52:29 +0200 (CEST)

>> For German, say, the tutorial expects that there exists a real file
>> called TUTORIAL.de (even if it is a local copy for the user), and
>> the corresponding buffer is called TUTORIAL.de too.  Currently, we
>> have a buffer name `TUTORIAL (German)'.
> 
> I really don't think it's a good idea to have filenames ending with
> ".<language code>".

I fully agree.

> I file called TUTORIAL.el would be expected to be an Emacs-lisp
> file, and not a text file in Greek, etc. (Yes, I realize there is no
> TUTORIAL.el in the current emacs.) Couldn't a dash be used instead
> of a hyphen in those filenames?

Not for the next release, I suggest.  It should be changed to
something better afterwards.  My main point was that it is far less
work to undo the changes in tutorial.el than to fix ALL translations
(which is quite a lot of work to be done, by many different people).


    Werner




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