On 04/12/2022 18:27, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
For some reason I believed that gettext was available in Emacs.
...
It would indeed be interesting to have a unified approach to bring
translations into Emacs. I'd discuss it on emacs-devel.
I found the following thread:
Eli Zaretskii to emacs-devel… Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages
(swahili) Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:16:24 +0200. mid:834kkbp9vr....@gnu.org
They are easy enough to find: search the list archives for "gettext"
or "l10n", and you will find them. The last one starts here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00081.html
A previous one starts here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-04/msg00750.html
So a translations framework for Emacs is to be implemented. This
particular thread is concentrated on 2 issues:
- Attempt to not count all elements in list for performance reason.
Unfortunately `ngettext' would not work for languages having more than
"" and "s" forms.
- "Fluent" would be better than gettext since it allows arbitrary
categories, not just numbers, but someone should write its
implementation in C. This part of discussion is mostly dedicated to the
question if linking with a Rust library is acceptable.
