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Re: Emacs i18n
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs i18n |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:46:02 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:42:06 -0500
>
> > If we do that, how do we deal with strings that are computed by
> > concatenation or formatting?
>
> Feed them in through %s or something like that.
But then the strings that are formatted via %s will not be translated,
they will remain in English.
> I'm proposing the convention that the first argument to 'message' gets
> by default translated, and other arguments don't. With this
> convention, whichever result you want, it is clear how to get it.
>
> We already do things basically this way, because if you want to
> compute a string to be the message, you don't want % to be treated
> specially in it. So you use "%s" as the first argument and pas that
> string as the second.
For the point I'm trying to make, it is immaterial whether the first
argument is "%s" and the second argument is computed from several
sources, or the first argument is that computed string. The problems
that follow are the same.
> > They get in one piece to functions like
> > 'message', but the catalog will not hold that concatenated string, it
> > will have the parts separately.
>
> That would happen if the catalog is made ONLY by scanning the source.
> That's why I suggested a feature to record whatever nontrivial format
> strings are passed to 'message' and are not in the catalog.
Such a feature will only help when a given call to 'message' produce a
small number of fixed text strings. If the text it produces includes
some non-deterministic ingredient, this method will not help.
- Re: Emacs i18n, (continued)
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- Re: Emacs i18n, Paul Eggert, 2019/03/11
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/11
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/11
- Re: Emacs i18n, Yuri Khan, 2019/03/10
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/09
- Re: Emacs i18n, Paul Eggert, 2019/03/10
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/09
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/06
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- Re: Emacs i18n, Paul Eggert, 2019/03/07
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- Re: Emacs i18n, Paul Eggert, 2019/03/07
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/08
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/07
- Re: Emacs i18n, Richard Stallman, 2019/03/07
- Re: Emacs i18n, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/03/06
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