Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Zhu Zihao]

Eli Zaretskii writes:

> There were serious discussions of this stuff in the past, which
> revealed the parts of this (large) job, and in particular that just
> having a Lisp binding for gettext is not enough.  We are "ready" in
> the sense that someone needs to implement at least some of those
> parts.

Can you give me a link to the dicussion?

So far as I can imagine, these problems should be solved before we
introduce l10n to Emacs.

1. Emacs should be able to compile gettext *.po file, not just read *.mo
file. It's not elegant to distribute package with *.mo files bundled.

2. More tightly integration to gettext tools. This may already be
solved, we can merge the po-mode.el from gettext project to Emacs and
improve it.

3. Namespace. In order to make all 3rd-party Emacs plugins to use
gettext l10n, we should provide a proper way to let plugins declare
their own text domain. And we may also need to resolve the conflict.
Since all plugins run with Emacs in same process. text domain name
confliction will be a big problem.

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