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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:54:49 +0100
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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".

It is not really that hard for Indo-European languages.

A top-down or a hieroglyphic writing system might be kind of difficult 
for Ada.Text_IO... (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de