From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Elias_M=C3=A5rtenson?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:33:24 +0800 Message-ID: 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> <837edbdg33.fsf@gnu.org> <65e3fe78-3264-12ff-1edf-a05bfd86a9a9@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000214c4005838dbcad" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="258086"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel , Juri Linkov To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 08 05:35:02 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 1h27Dn-0014xr-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:34:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h27Dm-0005Hi-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h27DC-0005HO-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h27DB-0003SC-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-it1-x135.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::135]:39518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h27D5-0002xS-V9; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-it1-x135.google.com with SMTP id l15so19516484iti.4; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:34:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=vvnx1bH+Ys8t5hmSTvDmsAQudGvYpjsCsAn8+XlV6Rs=; b=HbuGHURrvjKEch4x/OZQYECzNWDpTA8CKuiRKFIyRl027ucBiQ6JLZNykWtiu0cNnc IU24ZOwMEeWodNvsDDL/vvyB72I5UQ/UxAyjazMot9i9BRSRDp5IJz0o0l+70jnssvsf yrKD/KKksc+SFToo2mH7scQrLOLMuxUpmVqXXL/gV1Sk0x0rgIKPSA2/hP4bIxDpmNpg pgzINxohaFVmsU6PerzQwml1C2BmEMIspuLu/P2m/2tVVUIfafEKs8qaRRyM2WQSepTV 8Svcx3exdoy+g8PYoza37VLlkKNkQYbNnZzQ+gsUGKil4roWznS4KVjKXBT17m8zfpU6 Pxwg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=vvnx1bH+Ys8t5hmSTvDmsAQudGvYpjsCsAn8+XlV6Rs=; b=KorH683znDG+jfgz8kVNn1rd1TXoDC8qI5JhGwYjJxAy8KG0zJWFG1hra32qw5GvO4 z5Rwzkh73pv+xA+pjvTZEhamq/v2vQoRJfCtyUykfDacH4RUvKB5NUMJZYcbaFpL9BNx POzQ0d7s7nNU2zsR1gvL45k5pLlTNeui4jH24UubMGpAUxfJuXqeIUKEqnB4MXQV3FYa 4BeZZD7Nmjx2KVNtlnh/FI/Sl9ktpFIU/a1tnxif+auYQyqTGuibTIqXDAWKzAajDcuy 42XZIsPwR53OehovhPW2Fi1/a3gf33J7Wb/W7epc91h5JmeCJ5zTncy/B1lzSn9rDIYu aThg== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUEEN3smVcLY8Mor7oj3wocSxmvdRFyycz0/6XDEljHaGU9gKwq C+7lphxTTs7WaDLeL21zJls41YOsOCBjTJxTrk7wbg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzV3FYFkVJVpCEiAmmb0cRRdnJ+tqMYuVp2PlaBZcXjy66YSt6hluoFVaYad9nwmgn9WuxwGbDlDawNTCPcwKU= X-Received: by 2002:a02:88ea:: with SMTP id b39mr9714582jak.18.1552019653477; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:34:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::135 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:233911 Archived-At: --000000000000214c4005838dbcad Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 12:08, Richard Stallman wrote: Even better, translation could allow replacing that list of messages > with a different list of messages, perhaps longer. That would > make possible perfect support for a language where you need a different > text for 2 and for numbers larger than 2. Russian, for example, uses three different grammatical cases, which are dependent on the last digit of the number, the system needs to be more complicated. Regards, Elias --000000000000214c4005838dbcad Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 12:08, Richard Stal= lman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

Even better, translation could allow replacing th= at list of messages
with a different list of messages, perhaps longer.=C2=A0 =C2=A0That would make possible perfect support for a language where you need a different
text for 2 and for numbers larger than 2.

R= ussian, for example, uses three different grammatical cases, which are depe= ndent on the last digit of the number, the system needs to be more complica= ted.

Regards,
Elias
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