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Re: Emacs i18n


From: Clément Pit-Claudel
Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:17:22 -0400
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On 2019-03-22 13:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:16:17 -0400
>>
>>> It isn't clear to me yet.  At least at the time this change was made,
>>> we didn't expect to revert, we thought this form will remain when it
>>> can be translated.
>>
>> Oh!  Then I misunderstood.  I thought the idea was that once we have a 
>> library that can handle this well, we'd write something like (ngettext "One 
>> package installed" "%d packages installed" n), with ngettext picking between 
>> both in English and picking the appropriate string in other languages.
> 
> Maybe.  ngettext wasn't on the table when this change was made, and
> even now I'm not yet sure what the end result will look like.

Got it. Thanks for taking the time to explain!



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