Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Ah, ok. I suppose that's true. However, imagine the scenario in five
  > years when we have to rip out gettext and 42 translations and replace
  > them with something else because everyone is getting annoyed at how hard
  > it is to pluralize things correctly.

It is a mistake to make such specific assumptions about what we
will do, years from now.  We could do other things, such as.

* Not bother about it, because only a minority of users experience
a problem and it is merely the same annoyance they see in other programs.

* Fix it in gettext, for all GNU programs at once.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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