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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:47:25 +0100
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On 23/11/2017 10:15, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> 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.

It translates whole part of the sentence, e.g.

    Default    -> Locale
    "You have" -> "Du hast"
    "You have" -> "У тебя есть"

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