Re: l10n architecture proposal available for comments

Rimas Kudelis <[email protected]> Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:34:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Axel Hecht wrote:
> If we'd actually specify something turing complete, we could create
>  macros to process language mangling for names, but really, that's
> tough.

I know, there are complex languages around...

> But yes, there is going to be a general section on "classes" in
> l20n, and we should talk about people there, too.
> 
> Note, I would expect the attribute name to be the Lithuanian name
> for the grammar case, so if I had a German name in a database,
> filled in with German grammar cases, I expect the attributes logic
> to fallback to the main string, so I guess even my sample code
> would return
> 
> Axel Hecht dokumtai
> 
> for that case. But I haven't checked, obviously.

What if names of cases match for different languages? I would suggest
using an ISO prefix for the language/locale in the attribute names then.
Also, can attributes have non-ASCII letters in their names?..

Rimas