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Re: Emacs i18n
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs i18n |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:05:30 -0400 |
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On 2019-03-21 17:56, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>
>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:34, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 2019-03-21 17:21, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>>>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:03, Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> but the original author had actually writen the code to get the English
>>>> plurals right in most cases.
>>>
>>> Yes, but the issue is not to have "most cases right" but rather to have
>>> readable strings in the code.
>>
>> But is that worth the loss in readability in the UI?
>
> That's a subjective issue. I think the strings are more readable now and
> there are potentially less grammatical mistakes (I am not talking about the
> "Number of" part you mentioned). While before it was easy to not notice a bug
> in the code. I think that is a net gain.
Understood, thanks. I would have preferred sticking with the previous
phrasing, but a single opinion is not much to act upon.
- Re: Emacs i18n, (continued)
- Re: Emacs i18n, Juri Linkov, 2019/03/03
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: Emacs i18n, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2019/03/22
- Re: Emacs i18n, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Juri Linkov, 2019/03/21
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/22