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@ 2017-05-28  5:29 Jean-Christophe Helary
  2017-05-28 14:27 ` Drew Adams
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From: Jean-Christophe Helary @ 2017-05-28  5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The discussion so far seems to point at modifying 'message' and the likes so that developers don't have to bother with any l10n mechanism on their part (besides for writing clean strings).

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On May 27, 2017, at 10:52, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

> My very uninformed idea is that we need an independent function that handles the preferred language check and the catalog parsing based on a key, and all the string displaying functions (message etc) would be redefined to call that function when a non default preferred langage (currently English) is detected.

On May 27, 2017, at 16:43, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Yes but from what I've seen in package/el, a lot of translatable texts are not displayed with "message". Some
> use "error", some use other mechanisms.

Internally, they all boil down to a small set of C functions, which is
where we should make these changes.
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Since it's C, I'm not going to be able to contribute to that before I understand the language, and the function definitions. I guess it's time I open that K&R that's been on my shelves forever...

Jean-Christophe 

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2017-05-28  5:29 i18n/l10n summary Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-28 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-05-28 14:36   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-05-28 15:33   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-05 12:55   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-17 23:22     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-22 12:48       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-22 13:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-22 13:45           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-22 14:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-22 23:54               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-23 14:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-23 23:29                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-24 14:47                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 15:34                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-24 15:51                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 16:08                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-24 16:29                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 16:48                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-24 16:55                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-31 22:18 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-31 22:29   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-06-01  5:18   ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-01  8:17     ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-01 23:20       ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-02  6:52         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-03  8:37           ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-03  9:12             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-03  9:34             ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-04 15:54               ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-04 16:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-04 18:37                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-12-03  5:43                 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-01 14:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-02  1:22   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-02  2:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-28  0:15 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2018-04-25 12:58 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-09-21  4:18   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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2017-05-28 21:52     ` Drew Adams

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