From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83d0mkt0jp.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <87h8cjspc0.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <29a53a39-fa50-1e94-9420-a3ea1250aa44@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="149418"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, brandelune@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 21 21:58:21 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 1h74lX-000chx-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h74lW-0008HS-FC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48790) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h74gj-0004cF-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h74de-0004N7-Ej; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3779 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h74dV-0000Ck-Rn; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:50:02 -0400 In-reply-to: <29a53a39-fa50-1e94-9420-a3ea1250aa44@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:33:21 -0400) 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:234489 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Richard Stallman , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:33:21 -0400 > > I understand that there's hope to support plurals and internationalization in a more principled way soon, but is this workaround (61f73703c74756e6963cc622f03bcc6938ab71b2) needed in the meantime? Whether we like it or not, it's one of the standard methods of solving these situations. It might sound somewhat more awkward in some languages than the original wording, but it has other more important advantages.