Re: Key bindings proposal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:01:21 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     It's impractical to internationalize the docstrings; there's too much.
>     Internationalizing the menu-bar is doable.
> 
> It would be a lot of work, but that need not be an obstacle, because
> it doesn't need to be complete to be useful.  If a team of translators
> adopts sensible priorities for which doc strings to work on first,
> their work could be useful even if they have covered only 1% of the
> doc strings.

I agree.  But some initial design is necessary, because the issues are
subtle, but non-trivial.

This was discussed a few times in the past, see, for example the
following two large threads:

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01464.html
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg01525.html

    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2001-11/msg00945.html
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2001-12/msg00200.html