Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Jul 24 2007, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Another cause is that emacs has a precise terminology. To blur it
> would be a source of confusion.

Do you think the German tutorial blurs the precise terminology?

> Also, emacs has a gazillion extension packages developed mostly by
> one author each and those won't be localized anyway. IMHO a program
> that uses one language and the same terminology everywhere is much
> better than a mixture of (possibly bad) localizations and original
> content.

I agree that a mixture is bad.  But complete translations of manuals
would be fine, I think.

> And finally I think there's no real demand for localizations. The
> average emacs user is a techie, a programer or maybe an author -- at
> least somebody who needs to edit huge amounts of text (no, not M$
> Word). Gretchen Müller won't fetch her mail with Gnus anyway, even
> though it was localized.

There are several people in de.comm.software.gnus who say that they
often have difficulties to understand Gnus manuals.  Such users would
benefit from German translations of the Gnus manuals.

Bye, Reiner.
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