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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 10:37:31 -0800
> 
> 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.

I'm saying that IMO it makes no sense at all to do this only for C.
The infrastructure used for that will most probably not work for Lisp,
let alone allow separate translations for separate packages to be
brought together and used in the same Emacs session.