From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:59:51 +0300 Message-ID: References: <83h7odrdwy.fsf@gnu.org> <86sg7w39fh.fsf@163.com> <83pn30pku5.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnx8otoj.fsf@163.com> <834kkbp9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <87czyxuxw6.fsf@db48x.net> <83sg7tm2es.fsf@gnu.org> <87tus9szo9.fsf@db48x.net> <83ft3sncbi.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24487"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 11:05:18 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 1kt6Rp-0006Gk-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:05:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49274 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6Ro-0003EG-Hv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46678) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6QX-0002Ti-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:42981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kt6QW-0001le-31 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.159.185]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000086417.000000005FE70A89.000011D7; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 03:03:53 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83ft3sncbi.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:261809 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-12-26 12:32]: > I think this issue is largely irrelevant to Emacs (and to translating > program messages in general), since it customary nowadays to avoid > gender-specific language. We certainly do that in Emacs. In many languages nouns have its gender classes, and I hope you do not mean that. Example is that flower in German is refered as female while in some other languages as male.