Re: Emacs i18n

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > That would happen if the catalog is made ONLY by scanning the source.
  > > That's why I suggested a feature to record whatever nontrivial format
  > > strings are passed to 'message' and are not in the catalog.

  > Such a feature will only help when a given call to 'message' produce a
  > small number of fixed text strings.  If the text it produces includes
  > some non-deterministic ingredient, this method will not help.

That is true.  But it is a comparatively small problem,
because those cases are a small minority.

The approach I have in mind is to make several mechanisms,
each designed to handle a large fraction of cases easily,
and leave the exceptions to be handled less easily.

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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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