Re: l10n architecture proposal available for comments

Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> Axel Hecht wrote:
>> Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>>> Do you intend to support Grammatical cases [1] in any way? If yes,
>>> then how do you see it?..
>>>
>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case
>>>
>>> RQ
>> Yes, it works pretty much like the gender example in
>> http://people.mozilla.com/~axel/l20n/js-l20n/sample-01.html.
>>
>> If you create a sample output similar to one of the js examples I did,=
 I
>> can create a corresponding lol file to demo that.
>>
>> Sadly, neither German nor English really show this off canonically, so=
 I
>> didn't do an example for that yet.
>=20
>=20
> OK, here's an example. From Microsoft Windows XP. Every user has a "My
> Documents" folder there. Now in English, you can see "Jane Doe's
> Documents" for user Jane Doe, "Jack Daniels' Documents" for user Jack
> Daniels etc.
>=20
> Meanwhile in Lithuanian, to be gramatically correct, it cannot be
> "Rimas Kudelis' dokumentai" or "Rimas' Kudelis' dokumentai" or "Rimas
> Kudelis dokumentai" or anything like that. It has to be "Rimo Kudelio
> dokumentai".
>=20
> And your gender example would sound like this:
>=20
> Gerb. p. Kudeli,
>=20
> =C5=A1is tekstas lokalizuotas
>=20
> J=C5=ABs u=C5=BEsisak=C4=97te vien=C4=85 prek=C4=99.
>=20
> Name: Kudelis
> gender: male
> Items: 1
> Language: Lietuvi=C5=B3
>=20
> Now, do you think such DYNAMIC casing would be possible?
>=20
> RQ

Probably still somewhat simplified, but here it goes:

<owner: "Rimas Kudelis"
  othercase: "Rimo Kudelio"
  gender: "male">

<myDocuments: "${owner.othercase} dokumentai">

Of course, you could have myDocuments depend on the gender of owner, for=20
example.

The tricky part comes when you actually realize that you want to get=20
"owner" from the user settings, at which point you probably bite a=20
bullet here, as I doubt that a user likes the idea of entering his name=20
in all genders, nor do I expect that there's a descent machine logic to=20
guess the grammar for a name.

Additional caveat, you don't really know whether the name of owner is=20
actually a lithuanian name or not, which might impact it, too. Like,=20
what would happen to "Axel Hecht" in this case?

Simply shows that "Axel's Documents" is a i18n bug. :-)

Axel