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Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) |
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Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:07 -0500 |
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> Ah, ok. I suppose that's true. However, imagine the scenario in five
> years when we have to rip out gettext and 42 translations and replace
> them with something else because everyone is getting annoyed at how hard
> it is to pluralize things correctly.
It is a mistake to make such specific assumptions about what we
will do, years from now. We could do other things, such as.
* Not bother about it, because only a minority of users experience
a problem and it is merely the same annoyance they see in other programs.
* Fix it in gettext, for all GNU programs at once.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), (continued)
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/22
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Zhu Zihao, 2020/12/23
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/23
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Zhu Zihao, 2020/12/23
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/24
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/25
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/25
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/25
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Stefan Monnier, 2020/12/25
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/25
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili),
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), tomas, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Tomas Hlavaty, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/26
- Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili), Daniel Brooks, 2020/12/26