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

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:06:41PM +0100, Duarte Loreto wrote:
>    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.

Why not may English another target language, and mark up strings for case
in the source language (which would be "almost, but not quite English")?

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Reinier