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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 10:15:36 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2017-11-21 20:15, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>>> That does not apply to Ada which is typed. In Ada I would do:
>>>
>>>     X : Meats := 1;
>>>
>>>     Put_Line ("You have" & Image (X));
>>>
>>> and Image (Meats) will produce "1 meat".
>>
>> This makes perfect sense - if you're only going to communicate in
>> English.  I can't see how you can extrapolate that to multiple
>> languages.  And definitely not multiple languages added dynamically
>> after compiling the program.
>
> The only thing you need to change is Image for String argument:
>
>    Put_Line (Image ("You have") & Image (X));
>
> Image will make lookup for "You have" in the translation table. So
> will do Image for Meats when looking for "meat" and "meats".

That assumes that all the languages you translate to have the same word
order.  I don't think that is realistic.

Greetings,

Jacob
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