Re: Emacs i18n

[Richard Stallman]

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    > (let* ((field (get-char-property pos 'field))
    >    (button (get-char-property pos 'button))
    >    (doc (get-char-property pos 'widget-doc))
    >    (text (cond (field "This is an editable text area.")
    >                (button "This is an active area.")
    >                (doc "This is documentation text.")
    >                (t "This is unidentified text.")))
    >    (widget (or field button doc)))
    >   (when widget
    >     (widget-browse widget))
    >   (message text)))

We would need to make SOME sort of change in it, but change could be
very simple.  It could consist of writing a call to 'translate' around
each of those string constants.

Or we might adopt a reader syntax for translatable strings.
That might be convenient, since we want these to be found
by tools processing the code, not solely handled by
executing the code.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)