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Re: Emacs i18n
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs i18n |
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Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:11:58 -0500 |
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> > 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.
That is true. But it is a comparatively small problem,
because those cases are a small minority.
The approach I have in mind is to make several mechanisms,
each designed to handle a large fraction of cases easily,
and leave the exceptions to be handled less easily.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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