OpenEuphoria

Re: Full locale support now in SVN!

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agri?u?ture.gouv.fr> May 05, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> include locale.e as l
> --- init code
> puts(1, l:translate("message", {l:w("hello"), l:w("world")}))
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

Your scheme doesn't even take care of the following. Even in the extremely
simple "Hllo, World!" example. In spanish, sentences that end with an emphasis
mark (!) start with an inverted emphasis mark (¡Hola, Mundo!). Changing word
order just doesn't help.
Completely agreeing with you, Kat.

CChris