Re: Emacs localization (Re: Why emacs have not native language menu)

[Jason Rumney]

On 24 Jul, 02:00, Jean-Christophe Helary <fus...@mx6.tiki.ne.jp>
wrote:
> On 24 juil. 07, at 09:36, Nick Roberts wrote:

> Yes. I could see that myself. Indeed, all the strings are in the
> code. All the functions are documented in English in their code and
> to get a proper localization of that, or at least of a basic core
> features (like functions that available from the UI for a start)
> would require to remove all strings and put them in locale separated
> files that emacs would load based on the environment. Is that correct ?

Locale specific files is the conventional way of dealing with
localization, but Emacs is extensible, which means that  we need to
come up with a design that is also extensible. Very few applications
have dynamic menus the way that Emacs does, mostly they are static and
defined in resource files where such conventional localization is
simple.