OpenEuphoria

Re: Full locale support now in SVN!

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowga??com> May 05, 2008
• 783 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> I suggest again that the users in those locales submit the translations.
> They'd
> know (more than we would) what's appropriate. As for a program that
> automagically
> changes word order in any given sentence, well, that would be a great
> translation
> program, and beyond doing free. Unless you know native speakers to volunteer
> in all those locales. I once considered having Tiggr learn by reading pages
> in other languages, when good english translations exist, but the signal:noise
> ratio is too high online. As much as 90% of unknown user submitted posts are
> trash, as far as language use and factual data content is concerned.
> 

Yes, the author of the application will be responsible to create their own
language files for messages used in his/her app. However, in one language it may
say Hello, World, while in another World, Hello.

I was thinking maybe something like this would work?

---- en_US.po file
message = $1%s, $2%s!

---- SomeOther.po file
message = $2%s $1%s!

include locale.e as l
--- init code
puts(1, l:translate("message", {l:w("hello"), l:w("world")}))

So... translate would take parameters from the sequence sent in a positional
order, possibly just reorder them and send the remainder %s %s! to sprintf.

Just thinking aloud.

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com