Re: Emacs i18n (was: bug#34520: delete-matching-lines should report how many lines it deleted)

[Paul Eggert]

On 3/4/19 8:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> For example, it is IMO pointless to be able to display translated
> strings from 'message' without also having a convenient automated way
> of collecting translatable messages and creating a message catalog
> that such a 'message' could use

There is longstanding technology to do that for C code. We could apply
that to Emacs, and then at least the builtin C-level messages will be
translated. Later, we could extend this to Elisp.