Re: i18n/gettext?

[Karl Eichwalder]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think this was ever discussed seriously.

When talking about it I meant it serious :)  Discussion took place on
USENET.  Some of us argued it might a good idea to start with adding
gettext to display --help output in the user's native language.

Here's the thread:

http://groups.google.com/groups?btnG=Google+Search&as_umsgid=shbsk2x986.fsf%40tux.gnu.franken.de

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>> Do we already have some ideas about i18n of Lisp?
>
> Perhaps there are ideas, but they are unspoken ;-)

François Pinard did some prototyping and these bits are still present in
po-mode.el coming with GNU gettext.

I'd like to lend my hands but don't expect C programming by my side!

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