[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Improved grammatic handling of nation names.

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/09/02 09:58 , Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

(I'm sending this on to the development list, because I believe it's
important to discuss.)

>On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
>> At 2000/08/21 10:05 , you wrote:
>> >This patch (2000-08-21) improves the grammatic handling of nation names.
>
>Are you referring to the nation_name_i18n_improvement patch?

Yes.

>> This look like a great improvement.  The patch is now out of date, so I
>> couldn't really test it.  Just reading the patch, however, brought a couple
>> of issues to mind.
>> 
>BTW, I am afraid it is still insufficient. For German we would not only
>need nominative and genitive but also accusativ. Couldn't we have a more
>general approach? If it fails with German, then it is likely to fail with
>other languages too. Polish was already mentioned.

Do you have a suggestion for how a more general approach would work?

Simply adding the accusative case is just a *bigger* form of the same
system, not more general.  However, this may be the only way to approach
the problem: keep adding cases until no one complains.  ;-)

jjm