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Re: Emacs and gettext

From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs and gettext
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 11:49:49 +0200 
> From: zeus@emacs.cl (Jonathan Gonzalez V.)
> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 21:18:05 -0300
> 
> Why Emacs don't use gettext to have translations ??

Several reasons:

  - we need a Lisp binding of gettext to translate messages embedded
    in the Lisp code
  - Emacs has its own code to handle non-ASCII characters which seems
    like a waste to ignore
  - no one stepped forward to work on this
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