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Re: generating a manual from annotations in source code



jimb@red-bean.com writes:
> 
> > The standard GNU way of internationalizing strings in source code is
> > to use `gettext', which will let the same binary run in different
> > locales by setting the LANG environment variable to appropriate
> > settings. Guile should not break this model with it's docstring, since
> > it is an official (and rather central) part of the GNU project.
> 
> I know nothing about gettext, so I may say doofus things on this
> subject, but I certainly don't want the Guile docstring system to be
> incompatible with the GNU translation projects' efforts.


I'm not exactly an expert, but I'm pretty sure localized binaries
would not be acceptable (of course, building the docstrings into the
binaries is bad for other reasons too, IMO)

 - Maciej