From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:36:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83sgvdndt0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o97aq6gz.fsf@jidanni.org> <87tvgoud56.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83o96wk2mi.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1hjfvjd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871s3p0zdz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83h8ckezyt.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8cjspc0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <29a53a39-fa50-1e94-9420-a3ea1250aa44@gmail.com> <87r2azq478.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83o963s4gx.fsf@gnu.org> <87va09ckym.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="63071"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, brandelune@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 24 04:47:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7u6v-000GIa-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 04:47:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7u6u-0000Fe-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7u6m-0000EP-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7twZ-0004HB-3A; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1502 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7twR-0002sk-HU; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:37:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87va09ckym.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:50:53 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:234672 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, brandelune@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > 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?