Well, Ricky I see you're one of the few who has really thought through all the issues.
On 2009 Dec 22, at 19:59, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Ricky Sharp <rsh...@mac.com> wrote: >> * No plural forms (while allowing plurals can be handled, it's not worth the >> effort IMO) That's good, because I read somewhere that in some languages, for example Arabic, there are actually different forms for "one", "two", and "three or more". But not using plural forms at all -- I would find that to be very difficult. > NSString has support for this with the syntax "Blah %1$@ blah %2$@". > Bizarrely, it starts at 1, not 0. You're correct Kyle, but I have enough trouble typing "%1$@" myself. There it just took me about 10 seconds. When I discovered this "feature" a few years ago, I decided that either localizers were going to frequently type it wrong, or use some kind of automated typing that would frequently type in the wrong one. So I wrote my own localized string function which does it the way that it was done in Classic Mac OS, with simply %0, %1, %2, and is type-agnostic. That's what I use now, and it seems to be bug-free at this point._______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
