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Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries
From: |
Uwe Scholz |
Subject: |
Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:13:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:30:11 +0200
>>
>> I don't have a good feeling about that. It's already lots of work to
>> keep the English docstrings up to date. And if some volunteers leave,
>> people are left with outdated docstrings in their language they count
>> on.
>>
>> I'm not against localizing menus, but docstrings? Most of programmers
>> will understand English, and binding so much work, constantly, for very
>> few users? IMHO we should spend our time with other important tasks to
>> improve user experience.
>
> You are, in effect, saying that Emacs should not be localized. If doc
> strings, echo-area messages, and help-echo messages are not to be
> localized, what's the value of having single-word menus localized?
Just to throw in some words, too: My wife uses Emacs often because she
creates LaTeX printouts for her physics classes. As she does only speak
some English, a localization of the "Preview" and the "LaTeX" menu would
be very helpful for her. Even the documentations of both packages are in
English. So I showed here the things she wanted to know and what I think
of are some nice to knows, but there may be even more. You know? :-D
The problem here is more or less related to AucTex and Preview and not
Emacs itself. But an effective infrastructure of Emacs could help here.
Basically, what I want to say is: If there would be the possibility to
localize at least the menus and the documentations, much more people
would use this great piece of software. :-)
But I guess, this is already known...
Ciao,
Uwe
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, (continued)
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/09/25
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/09/25
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- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Joost Kremers, 2013/09/25
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Óscar Fuentes, 2013/09/26
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/26
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- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Jason Rumney, 2013/09/27
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/27
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/25
- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Stefan Monnier, 2013/09/25
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- Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries,
Uwe Scholz <=
Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/24