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Re: Emacs i18n
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Emacs i18n |
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Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:47:34 -0400 |
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> Sorry, if I incorrectly interpreted your proposal, it was unclear to me
> at what stage you planned to expand the special markup such as %|
At the stage of translating a message -- when the value of the number
is known.
> Doing this at runtime means adding large dictionaries to the distribution
> (together with complex algorithms) to perform a dictionary lookup.
No dictionary is needed. It would handle only regular plurals
(following known rules)..
> Or alternatively to use an external online API that inflects the words.
No, it will be done directly in Lisp code.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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