Re: Proposal for declinations in gettext

[Janne <jan moren lucs lu se>]

And in Swedish we don't use the "of" construct at all: King of Hearts =
Hjärter Kung ~= "Heart King"


On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:39, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> 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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