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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:14:26 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>    Put (Image (n) & Image (Verb) & ' ' & Image ("Tail"));
>
> Image (0) would return empty string. But first I would avoid sentences
> difficult to translate without having AI. Anyway a format string would
> have more problems with inflections.
>
> BTW, for a right to left languages you could define "+" for strings
> that reorders arguments:
>
>    Put (A + B + C); --> Put (C & B & A);

I can't see how you can do that without having a programmer sit down
with a translator for each language, and implement an "Image" function
for each parametrised, user-visible sentence in the application.  That
sounds quite costly to me.

Do you have an idea (or experience) doing it in an efficient way, which
doesn't make it prohibitively costly to add more languages?  (Or to
change the user interface for that matter?)

Greetings,

Jacob
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