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Re: Emacs i18n


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:55:57 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> >> 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?

Yes, literally.  After the patch from
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00586.html
is pushed to master, ngettext is available to use for pluralization.



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