Re: translation of libinterp/version.cc messages

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/15/2013 08:12 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> Translation for some things, however, is a touchy subject. I do not
> know if the GPL assertion constitutes legal language. It's probably ok
> to apply i18n to this message, but the text of the GPL itself must not
> be translated.

I think it would be OK to use translations that are officially endorsed 
and approved by the FSF.

> There is a further complication for any i18n outside of libgui and
> that is that we would probably have to drop using C++ streams, since
> right now we have things such as
>
>      ": a few Ritz values of the "<<  p<<  "-by-"<<
>
> These are not amenable to i18n.

I don't think we have to abandon C++ streams.  But we will proabably 
have to rewrite some of the messages to work better for translations.

jwe