Re: [hylafax-users] internationalization tests

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2005.12.24 09:37 schrieb(en) Giuseppe Sacco:

> 1. It is very important for translation to have the complete sentence
>    to translate, while you translated line by line.
[...]
> 4. It seems it cannot handle plural forms (ex: for number of pages)

Hello Lee,

I did not apply the patch, I only looked at it and compared it with the  
faxrcvd script.

I agree with Guiseppe. It is not always possible, to create  
translations without rearranging the parts of a sentence.

Maybe we could use variables in the dictionary string and substitute  
them using eval.

Example:

DICTATTEMPTEDFAXFAILED="An attempt to receive facsimile on \$DEVICE  
failed because:"

-     echo "An attempt to receive facsimile on $DEVICE failed because:"
+     eval echo "$DICTATTEMPTEDFAXFAILED"

This could be even used to handle plural with some backquotes
DICTFOO="\$pages page\`[ \$pages -gt 1 ]&&echo 's'\`"


Am 2005.12.23 22:31 schrieb(en) Lee Howard:
> The approach is simple, it doesn't add dependencies (such as gettext
> would), and it allows for addition of customized hooks (like an etc/
> FaxDictionary script) that will allow administrators to customize
> particular phrases to their liking

I think such a customization hook should be called after
. bin/dictionary


Bodo

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