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: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:31 -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> <65e3fe78-3264-12ff-1edf-a05bfd86a9a9@cs.ucla.edu> 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="107603"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, lokedhs@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 10 04:05:48 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 1h2omZ-000RrB-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 04:05:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2omX-000565-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2omN-00055y-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2omM-0001k6-9t; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h2omJ-0005Sr-9g; Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 8 Mar 2019 23:54:28 -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:234000 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. ]]] > Russian has three plural forms useful for translating a string that formats an > integer N. One form is for when (N%10 == 1 && N%100/10 != 1), one is for when (2 > <= N%10 && N%10 <= 4 && N%100/10 == 1), and one is for everything else. So the > form depends on N, not on whether the translation of the word "items" is > masculine or feminine or whatever. That's how I understood it, and that is exactly what my proposal does. I will try to explain it again. Each clause inside numeric-select handles certain numbers. The car of the clause (in Lispy structure) selects numbers to handle. 'russian-masc' selects numbers that require a masculine ending, in Russian. You use it with a string that contains the masculine ending. 'russian-fem' selects numbers that require a feminine ending, in Russian. You use it with a string that contains the feminine ending. 'russian-neut' selects numbers that require a neuter ending, in Russian. You use it with a string that contains the neuter ending. If this does not work, why not? In the example that was sent, I see code that tests for certain kinds of numbers. But since I don't know the language that that is written in, the mathematical conditions are the only part I understand. I don't see what it will _do_ in each of those conditions. I presume it selects the appropriate suffix for the number, but I don't follow how it does so. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)