From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ? Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 10:49:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83mv9yivt1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2623E5C5-4D40-4C9F-BFF6-181D2E69F984@gmail.com> <831srgnuyc.fsf@gnu.org> <87vaon2b7r.fsf@jane> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495871400 1873 195.159.176.226 (27 May 2017 07:50:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 07:50:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 27 09:49:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWTx-0000L6-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2017 09:49:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39748 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWU2-0001ey-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 May 2017 03:49:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWTO-0001eo-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2017 03:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWTK-0005Yw-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 May 2017 03:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWTK-0005YZ-Rr; Sat, 27 May 2017 03:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2041 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dEWTK-0004NN-2O; Sat, 27 May 2017 03:49:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vaon2b7r.fsf@jane> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Sat, 27 May 2017 06:08:24 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215257 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Cc: Jean-Christophe Helary , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 06:08:24 +0200 > > On 2017-05-23, at 04:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Just replace it with 2 different spellings dispatched by the number. > > I guess you are aware that 2 different spellings are not enough for > certain languages...? I guess you are unaware that I'm the team leader for one of the TR translation teams? ;-) Yes, I know very well that 2 spellings are not enough for some languages. However, the above was written with only 1 language in sight -- English -- which we currently support, so it would be ridiculous to provide a more complex dispatch as long as other languages aren't supported. > Good luck with l10n. > > (I do not want to discourage work on it. But I'm afraid it's more > difficult than many people think... This complexity is already accounted for in gettext, AFAIK.