From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:11:58 -0500 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> <83o96mbv4l.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="165575"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 08 05:12:14 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 1h26rl-000gxR-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:12:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26rk-0000N0-Mz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26rX-0000Kw-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h26rX-0007Am-Hg; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h26rW-0006O3-Ed; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:11:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83o96mbv4l.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:46:02 +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:233909 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > That would happen if the catalog is made ONLY by scanning the source. > > That's why I suggested a feature to record whatever nontrivial format > > strings are passed to 'message' and are not in the catalog. > Such a feature will only help when a given call to 'message' produce a > small number of fixed text strings. If the text it produces includes > some non-deterministic ingredient, this method will not help. That is true. But it is a comparatively small problem, because those cases are a small minority. The approach I have in mind is to make several mechanisms, each designed to handle a large fraction of cases easily, and leave the exceptions to be handled less easily. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)