Re: [Translation-i18n] elisp support in gettext ?

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hello Jean-Christophe,

> > I would advocate against the idea of translating the docstrings, and
> > concentrate only strings that appear in the user interface (excluding
> > M-x describe) instead.
> 
> The idea is not to force translation of docstrings, but to offer it as well
> for people who want to do it since there is a lot of redundancy between the
> docstrings and the manuals. But the idea (for me) about docstrings is more
> to just allow their extraction. If people want to do them, why not, since
> the mechanism will be present anyway.

Then I would suggest to create two different POT files: one for the (small)
set of strings that occur in the UI, and one (large) for the docstrings.
This way
  - A translator who has limited time knows what to concentrate on.
  - Such a translator will have a better feeling when seeing a "100%"
    achievement rather than a "3%" achievement (like when both POT files
    were merged).

Bruno