[freeciv-i18n] Re: Grammatical cases in translations.

["Duarte Loreto" <happyguy_pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Hello!

Portuguese does not have this declination issue. So I have never payed much 
attention to the discussions around declination support. Anyway, below I 
send you 2 links about a discussion on that had on the gnome-i18n list with 
some cross-posting with other lists.

To make it short, it seems that supporting declinations would require 
changes to the ngettext module or something. This would not be very easy. 
Please follow up the links. The discussion might have been taken to another 
more appropriate list, in which case that will be mentioned on one of the 
posts.

Hope this helps you to get more information and more people that know more 
on the issue. Be happy!

Initial discussion
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-June/msg00059.html
Follow-up
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-June/msg00060.html

Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto

"Don't worry, be happy!"

>From: Gregory Berkolaiko <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: freeciv-i18n@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [freeciv-i18n] Grammatical cases in translations.
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:28:58 +0100 (BST)
>
>I have been playing civ3 and freeciv-on-win in Russian for some time and I
>was wondering, is it possible to get the cases right in the translated
>strings, where a string substitution occurs.
>
>Here is an example:
>
>string "We gave %s the city of %s", where the first %s is the name of the
>nation and the second is the name of the city.  The name of the nation
>should be in dative case and the city name is in accusative.
>
>With very few exceptions these cases are indistinguishable in English.
>However I know that there are 4 in German, 6 in Russian and about 14 in
>Finnish/Estonian/Udmurt.  The above cases are present in all of them.
>
>How are such things handled?
>
>G.

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