Re: Emacs i18n

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:16:17 -0400
> 
> > It isn't clear to me yet.  At least at the time this change was made,
> > we didn't expect to revert, we thought this form will remain when it
> > can be translated.
> 
> Oh!  Then I misunderstood.  I thought the idea was that once we have a 
> library that can handle this well, we'd write something like (ngettext "One 
> package installed" "%d packages installed" n), with ngettext picking between 
> both in English and picking the appropriate string in other languages.

Maybe.  ngettext wasn't on the table when this change was made, and
even now I'm not yet sure what the end result will look like.