Re: Where to contribute manual translations ? (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 238, Issue 29)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 01:23:40 +0000
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traductaire-libre.org>
> Cc: vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr, stefankangas@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org
> 
> >> Another question : how to internationalize docstrings ? IMHO it would be 
> >> great if the docstring could have some info manual anchor in it, and one 
> >> could display it from the currently selected language manual. Besides, 
> >> reading docstring from manual via some anchor is basically what Calc does 
> >> with some kitchen tricks.
> > 
> > Eli answered that.
> 
> There is also a different issue, that comes before translation, it is fixing 
> user facing strings, so that they can eventually be translated one day. I 
> also made a presentation on that at EmacsConf 2022:
> https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/localizing/

I believe this issue was also raised in the discussions whose pointers
I provided.  AFAIR, this issue is a much harder one, since
manipulating such strings is pervasive in Emacs, and mostly in Lisp,
not in C.