Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> My personal opinion is that gettext is too limited. It works for simple
>>> things, but provides no help at all for complex things.
>> My feeling is that Emacs is so far from those problems that considering
>> such issues will do little more than delay any actual progress.
> Possibly, but I'm not so sure. Just looking at the message function for
> a moment (because it's easy to grep for), there are a nonzero number
> that do numeric substitions. Here are a few selected examples:

You're missing my point: last I checked, we have 0 translations (well,
beside the tutorials, that is).  So, worrying about addressing the
plurality of plurals better than most other programs doesn't seem right.


        Stefan