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Re: Emacs i18n


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:36:59 +0200

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:50:53 +0200
> 
> >> Let's use ngettext plurals from now on.
> >
> > I don't think I understand the practical implications of that.  Could
> > you please elaborate?
> 
> This means replacing
> 
>   (message "Packages to install: %d" n)
> 
> with
> 
>   (message (ngettext "One package will be installed"
>                      "%d packages will be installed" n) n)

But since we don't yet have ngettext, we cannot yet use this
paradigm.  I thought by "from now on" you literally meant from now;
did I misunderstand?



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