From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <87v9d3nkxk.fsf@gnus.org> <83sg7xrgr5.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7odrdwy.fsf@gnu.org> <86sg7w39fh.fsf@163.com> <83pn30pku5.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnx8otoj.fsf@163.com> <834kkbp9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <87czyxuxw6.fsf@db48x.net> <878s9luu87.fsf@db48x.net> <874kk9usf8.fsf@db48x.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32104"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: all_but_last@163.com, bugs@gnu.support, dimech@gmx.com, abrochard@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org To: Daniel Brooks Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 06:35:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOhx-0008Di-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:35:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59068 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOhw-0005JG-Rr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOh0-0004Uz-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOgz-0001Us-PR; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOgx-00013G-Et; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:34:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874kk9usf8.fsf@db48x.net> (message from Daniel Brooks on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 20:01:31 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261882 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. ]]] > Ah, ok. I suppose that's true. However, imagine the scenario in five > years when we have to rip out gettext and 42 translations and replace > them with something else because everyone is getting annoyed at how hard > it is to pluralize things correctly. It is a mistake to make such specific assumptions about what we will do, years from now. We could do other things, such as. * Not bother about it, because only a minority of users experience a problem and it is merely the same annoyance they see in other programs. * Fix it in gettext, for all GNU programs at once. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)