Re: Proposal for declinations in gettext

[Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth gnu org>]

And Hjerterkonge in Danish. ;-)

Kenneth

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:37, Bernd Groh wrote:
> 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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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>