From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gettext for Ada Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:37:22 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2c5d0dff-bc12-4b37-b8e1-ac176c3e675f@googlegroups.com> <87r2sszr4f.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <0d02d48a-112f-4817-ab29-6dded00eb81f@googlegroups.com> <87mv3fzbn9.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <87efopz77r.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <87a7zdz4zt.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49106 Date: 2017-11-23T11:37:22+01:00 List-Id: On 23/11/2017 11:03, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >> It translates whole part of the sentence, e.g. >> >> Default -> Locale >> "You have" -> "Du hast" >> "You have" -> "У тебя есть" > > What would you do if the proper translation was > > n=0: Einki kjøt hevur tú. > n>0: petti kjøt hevur tú. > > ? 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); -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de