Re: Emacs i18n

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Indeed, a complete implementation of all Russian morphological rules
  > takes ~1600 lines of dense Perl code:

  > http://www.linkov.net/files/nlp/Lingua-RU-Inflect.pm

  > I can't imagine how to include all these rules to gettext.

I agree with you about that.  What I propose is something else.

1. I do not propose implementing them all.  Only some -- whichever ones
we think are worth while.

2. I do not propose putting any of this in gettext.
What I propose would be Emacs code that operates on the strings that
come from gettext.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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