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 
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