Re: Key bindings proposal

[Stuart Hacking]

On 5 August 2010 03:39, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes.  But UI internationalization is a solved problem.
>

> Docstrings are a solved problem, by gettext.  Even translating them is
> a solved problem, there are several projects which will help, and it
> can be done incrementally.
>
> Ditto Info files and the like.
>

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for the reading suggestions. :)

> Yes, there is a big demand for localization.  Most Japanese and
> Chinese programmers speak English very poorly, and read it only with a
> fair amount of effort.  Even a surprisingly large number of Indians
> have some trouble with English.  If Uday Reddy is right that many
> users means many recruits, well, there are probably 50 million
> potential users Emacs could reach with better localization.
>

I'd say that makes it more than worthwhile.