la, 2008-01-26 kello 08:05 -0500, William Allen Simpson kirjoitti:
> > The Finnish translation both for Danes and Danish starts with a
> > non-capital letter (tanskalaiset, tanskalaisten), so when I have to use
> > it in the start of a sentence, I probably just have to hope
> > capitalization is taken care of somewhere else. ;)
> >
> I've been trying to keep these away from the beginning of the sentence,
> usually by sticking "The %s" on it. Perhaps nation_article_plural() to
> allow gender, cases, whatever is needed?
The 'the' in the start of the msgid sentence actually just hides the
problem from the coder eyes, since it's an empty word and nonexistent in
Finnish; we don't have articles like a/an/the at all. A
localization-aware capitalization for all full sentences driven through
gettext probably wouldn't hurt though? I can imagine that in some
languages even sentences where the msgid doesn't start with a %s might
be translated to need it.
(By localization-aware I mostly mean that it should not do silly things
to languages with no capital letters or right-to-left languages.)
> There are a lot of unit names used at the beginning. I was thinking about
> unit_article() to allow gender.
Unit_article()'ll just be an empty string for us. Also, an average
Finnish speaker can't divide words into genders, although I'm pretty
sure there is some kind of word-class-based logic for our inflections.
The nasty bit is that you can't do it by adding generic things to a
fixed %s base.
Caravan -> karavaani
A caravan / The caravan / A Caravan / The Caravan -> karavaani
object form: (destroyed your) caravan -> karavaanin (+n)
Ship -> alus
object form: (destroyed your) ship -> aluksen (word body changes + en)
> > At the moment, I don't think I particularly need more forms or a
> > renaming of a single form ("Denmark" would be nice for the nation
> > selection, of course, but not sure if it's worth everyone else's
> > trouble).
>
> Isn't that what used to be in the name= field? But now is an adjective?
Ah, quite possible; I remember being thoroughly confused with these at
some point, and that would match calling the adjective form the name of
the nation. :)
--Sini
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