Re: Emacs i18n

[Juri Linkov]

>> I think it would be most natural to handle doc strings through
>> a special mechanism.
>
> Up to a point, perhaps.  We still should try to use .po files for
> them, if at all possible, and perhaps also the gettext code that
> supports looking up strings in .gmo catalogs generated from .po.

The PO format is best suited for translation of one-liners like
messages and menu items, but I doubt that the PO format would be
the most efficient implementation for multi-line doc strings since
gettext uses the whole text of the doc string as a key to translation.
Whereas more efficient would be to use a Lisp symbol (function or
variable name) as a translation key.