Re: Emacs i18n

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 17:33:26 -0800
> 
> On 3/6/19 11:49 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We are miscommunicating: I meant strings passed to 'message' and its
> > ilk, not just any kind of strings.
> 
> In that case, the solution that Richard proposed should suffice for most
> cases. That is, in most cases we shouldn't need to change the Elisp
> source code; all we need is for xgettext (or its equivalent) to consider
> the first argument of 'message' to be a translatable string. This is a
> standard feature of xgettext (see its --keyword argument).

This will solve the string extraction part.  But how will the actual
translation happen?  As I wrote elsewhere, I don't see how relying on
the function to perform the extraction will work with non-fixed
strings.