[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spelling fixes (PR#1526)

[Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

scripsit Daniel L Speyer:
 
> In the beginning there was Unix, and Unix spoke, and it said "Hello
> world!".  It did not say "Hello United States of America" nor "Hello
> English speakers."...
> 
> Seriously, though, we should try to handle this generally enough to
> support at least all the languages we're currently translated
> to.  Hardcoding english's quirks seems like a very bad move.

Maybe it should have been `Ave munde!' ;)

On further reflection, Daniel is quite right.  I apologize for reflexive
Anglocentrism ;)  But I do find it amusing that it was Connectiva to
bring this up.

Is there a `standard' way of coding i18n'd ordinals?  It's not a
straightforward thing -- e.g. in Russian you need to know gender and
case (1-ij for masc. sing. nom., 1-ogo for masc. sing. gen., etc.), in
French you need to know gender and distinguish 1er from the others, etc.

-- 
Thanasis Kinias
Web Developer, Information Technology
Graduate Student, Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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