From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, brandelune@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:17:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7d80de4-fe8d-c969-adf7-10e7c5640c0a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7hmrevh.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2019-03-22 13:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:16:17 -0400
>>
>>> It isn't clear to me yet. At least at the time this change was made,
>>> we didn't expect to revert, we thought this form will remain when it
>>> can be translated.
>>
>> Oh! Then I misunderstood. I thought the idea was that once we have a library that can handle this well, we'd write something like (ngettext "One package installed" "%d packages installed" n), with ngettext picking between both in English and picking the appropriate string in other languages.
>
> Maybe. ngettext wasn't on the table when this change was made, and
> even now I'm not yet sure what the end result will look like.
Got it. Thanks for taking the time to explain!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-22 23:17 UTC|newest]
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2019-03-03 3:04 ` bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted Richard Stallman
2019-03-03 15:31 ` Emacs i18n (was: bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted) Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-03 20:57 ` Emacs i18n Juri Linkov
2019-03-04 1:46 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-06 9:38 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-03-06 11:23 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-21 20:33 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 21:03 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 21:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-21 21:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 21:56 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-21 22:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-21 23:46 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-22 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 16:10 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-22 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 17:16 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-22 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 23:17 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2019-03-21 21:17 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-21 21:59 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-22 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-23 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-24 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-24 21:55 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-24 23:31 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-25 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-25 22:31 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-26 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-26 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-26 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-26 22:35 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-27 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-28 14:56 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-03-28 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-27 2:34 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-26 23:16 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-27 1:35 ` Paul Eggert
2019-04-24 6:39 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-24 20:18 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-25 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 9:04 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-25 21:02 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-26 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-27 23:06 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-25 10:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-25 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 21:11 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-25 22:05 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-27 21:22 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-28 11:03 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-03-04 3:27 ` Emacs i18n (was: bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted) Richard Stallman
2019-03-04 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-04 18:37 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-04 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-05 2:09 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-05 21:58 ` Emacs i18n Juri Linkov
2019-03-06 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-06 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-06 19:47 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-06 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 1:52 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-08 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-08 4:33 ` Elias Mårtenson
2019-03-08 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 3:11 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-09 7:54 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-09 10:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-10 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-10 6:07 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-11 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-11 3:52 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-12 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-12 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-10 8:45 ` Yuri Khan
2019-03-10 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-10 6:14 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-10 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-07 3:42 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-07 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 17:19 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 18:24 ` martin rudalics
2019-03-07 18:44 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 22:25 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-08 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-08 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-06 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-06 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-06 19:39 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-06 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 1:33 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 16:06 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 4:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-07 16:04 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-08 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-11 21:48 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-11 22:51 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-12 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-17 21:23 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-18 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-18 21:55 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-19 20:40 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-11 23:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-12 9:16 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-06 19:47 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-06 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 1:43 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-07 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-07 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 22:29 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-08 1:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-08 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 15:11 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-08 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 2:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-03-09 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 8:37 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-09 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 11:27 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-09 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 19:55 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-09 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 20:47 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-09 20:04 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-09 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 19:22 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-09 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-09 20:08 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-10 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-10 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-09 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-08 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-06 2:09 ` Emacs i18n (was: bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted) Richard Stallman
2019-03-05 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-05 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 11:59 Emacs i18n Bruno Haible
2019-03-20 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2019-03-20 21:32 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-21 2:14 ` Richard Stallman
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2019-03-21 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-23 2:28 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-23 7:55 ` Yuri Khan
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2019-03-23 17:50 ` Ineiev
2019-03-24 1:43 ` Richard Stallman
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2019-03-23 21:48 ` Juri Linkov
2019-03-24 1:47 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-22 20:50 ` Chusslove Illich
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2019-03-21 2:55 ` Bruno Haible
2019-03-21 2:14 ` Richard Stallman
2019-03-22 1:26 ` Bruno Haible
2019-03-23 2:29 ` Richard Stallman
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