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: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 05:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83va0vbbuc.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> <83o96qegv1.fsf@gnu.org> <32b1ab1b-bef4-629a-8830-b1dcc6915087@cs.ucla.edu> <83a7iae9va.fsf@gnu.org> <05ed2dec-2a84-f7dc-1af5-c9d923992785@cs.ucla.edu> <87bm2p56gu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <838sxrdgco.fsf@gnu.org> <831s3jdbrk.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="128798"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 07 04:31:30 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 1h1jko-000XPZ-A4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 04:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jkm-00052g-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:31:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jk8-00052Z-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:30:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jk7-0002H8-Ag; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2357 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h1jjt-00038C-Ta; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:30:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:33:26 -0800) 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:233876 Archived-At: > Cc: juri@linkov.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:33:26 -0800 > > On 3/6/19 11:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > We are miscommunicating: I meant strings passed to 'message' and its > > ilk, not just any kind of strings. > > In that case, the solution that Richard proposed should suffice for most > cases. That is, in most cases we shouldn't need to change the Elisp > source code; all we need is for xgettext (or its equivalent) to consider > the first argument of 'message' to be a translatable string. This is a > standard feature of xgettext (see its --keyword argument). This will solve the string extraction part. But how will the actual translation happen? As I wrote elsewhere, I don't see how relying on the function to perform the extraction will work with non-fixed strings.