Re: Proposal for declinations in gettext

[Bernd Groh <bgroh redhat com>]

I have to agree here (with complete strings being required, even if it 
appears like thousand redundant messages in english), and I don't even 
see a solution for the particular problem of sprintf("%s of %s", "king", 
"heart")). Already this composition fails in several languages and a 
separate entry for each card is required, since 'King of Hearts' is 
'Herzkönig' in German and not anything 'of'.

Cheers,
Bernd


Callum McKenzie wrote:

>  
>
>>>>msgid "king"
>>>>        
>>>>
>>The problem seems obvious to me: It is plain incorrect that "king" is
>>a separate msgid, if it is meant to be pasted in different
>>contexts. Instead, it should be added into any context where it is
>>meant to be pasted into, forming separate msgids.
>>    
>>
>
>Except that in the example given this would result in several thousand
>messages (and this is after creating strings for all the possible card
>names rather than doing sprintf("%s of %s", "king", "heart")). 
>
>Since it is clear that almost any generated string will break some rule in
>some language thousands of strings may be the only "complete" solution. In
>this particular case I have some creative solutions in mind to avoid the
>problem, but that can't happen in general and I fear there will always be
>some programs with either lots of strings or really bad translations into
>some languages.
>
>Hopefully this will be a very small number.
>
> - Callum
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