Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Zhu Zihao <all_but_last@163.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:04:50 +0800
> Cc: dimech@gmx.com, abrochard@gmx.com, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >> Is it possible to start, like using gettext stuff?
> >
> > See the ngettext function.
> 
> I see the the C code of ngettext.
> 
>   /* Placeholder implementation until we get our act together.  */
>   return EQ (n, make_fixnum (1)) ? msgid : msgid_plural;
> 
> Looks that we're not ready for the i18n/l10n?

"Ready" in what sense?

There were serious discussions of this stuff in the past, which
revealed the parts of this (large) job, and in particular that just
having a Lisp binding for gettext is not enough.  We are "ready" in
the sense that someone needs to implement at least some of those
parts.

(This is about l10n; i18n is in Emacs since v20.1.)