Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:56:14 +0300
>> 
>> If you describe in an ISO 8859-7 Greek manual that
>> the following are equivalent:
>> 
>>     M-x find-file RET διαδρομή RET
>>     μενού: Αρχείο | Άνοιγμα ...
>> 
>> which are the localized versions, then it's not as easy to
>> remember that the `random' name `find-file' maps easily to the
>> Greek text for "Open..." :-(
>
> If those hypothetical Greek users understand and remember find-file
> _today_, when it is described in a purely English manual, they won't
> have a harder time when the explanations are in Greek.

But we are talking about extending the user base here.  We are talking
about those hypothetical Greek users whom English gives a headache.
Not those who have already learnt to survive.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum