Re: IRC client for Emacs

[Karl Eichwalder]

Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:

> So if someone changed the (english) format string in the source code,
> suddenly none of the other catalogs would work anymore for that
> message.

The GNU gettext philosophy is: Better some English messages than
outdated translations.  Often you cannot say where a stylistic change
ends and where content correction start the translator must take into
account.

Thanks for explaining the background of the implementation -- looks
promising.

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