GNU bug report logs - #54139
27.2; Translating the Emacs Menu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 54139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>
Cc: 54139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54139: 27.2; Translating the Emacs Menu
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:34:41 +0100

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de> writes:

> For newcomers the Menu is very useful to start into Emacs. But it is
> only available in English.
>
> It would be great to be able to translate it, for example by setting
> some translation strings.

I don't think translating just the menus would help much -- for this to
make sense, we'd need to internationalise the source code so that
messages are also localised.

And there's an etc/TODO item for that.

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