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Re: generating a manual from annotations in source code



> 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.