Re: Internationalization

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@myware.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> #"This is a string" seems like a better idea to me...  or even 
> #_"This is a string".  This will require some tiny changes in lread.c,
> but nothing major...

But this has a major drawback: you have to convince RMS.  With the
solution François currently propagates no change in Emacs is
necessary.

> If it's simple to include gettext in Emacs, could you run this by RMS
> and see what he thinks about it?

Somebody who participates in Emacs development should do this.
Principally it should be trivial.  Have we agreed on the interface
yet?  If I remember correctly we agreed that the simple `gettext'
function is of no big value since the current domain should always
be the one of the Emacs binary.

So we have two candidates: dgettext and dcgettext.  Since LISP can
handle optional argument we could unifiy this to simply provide a

	(defun gettext (domain string &optional category) ...)

In addition the bindtexdomain function is needed.  How this fits
in the #"..." scheme Lars proposed, I don't know.

BTW: in bash and ksh $"..." is used.  Would this be possible as well?

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