From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.gettext.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:47:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <25076895.mA2g9mTHSI@omega> <87h8bx5ijn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87y357q4uc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87lg15dzyl.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="166618"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: bug-gettext@gnu.org, bruno@clisp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 24 02:56:54 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 1h7sNa-000h90-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 02:56:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7sNZ-00021P-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7sNM-0001ye-Dn; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7sEZ-00029Z-9U; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7sEY-0001cM-ED; Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:47:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lg15dzyl.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 23 Mar 2019 23:48:34 +0200) 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:234668 gmane.comp.gnu.gettext.bugs:1976 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. ]]] > Sorry, if I incorrectly interpreted your proposal, it was unclear to me > at what stage you planned to expand the special markup such as %| At the stage of translating a message -- when the value of the number is known. > Doing this at runtime means adding large dictionaries to the distribution > (together with complex algorithms) to perform a dictionary lookup. No dictionary is needed. It would handle only regular plurals (following known rules).. > Or alternatively to use an external online API that inflects the words. No, it will be done directly in Lisp code. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)