Re: [musl] Selecting locale source format

[Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>]

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On 10/1/25 09:55, Pablo Correa Gomez wrote:
> We got now a few replies from translators, and the most remarkable
> thing that was brought up is how to deal with natural text whose
> translations might change depending on context. Both plural forms and
> declinations were brought up.
> 
> Discussing a bit with Rich, it seems that such thing will not be an
> issue for strings related to the libc API, which is what is the biggest
> concern of the work we are doing now. However, there are
> implementation-dependent strings in libc, like dynamic linker messages,
> which could potentially be added in the future. Still, since we are
> setting the file format, it would be important to make sure that
> whatever we come up now is flexible enough to not block future
> development. Any thoughts?

https://projectfluent.org is the best I know of, but it has no
tooling for C that I am aware of.  I do prefer something that avoids
translation files containing executable code, as it lowers the risk of
accepting translation patches.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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