On 13/07/2005, at 8:09 AM, Hendrik Brandt wrote:
There are similar problems in other languages, e.g. French and
Russian.
It's not your fault, I think it's more a genreal problem and
incapability of the current translation methods. E.g. there is
currently
no way to distinguish between different genders of word. A example
from
the gnome-doc-utils package is e.g. the word "Author". In English
there
is no determination if the author is male or female, but in German
(and
a lot of other languages) there is.
I don't know if gettext is capable doing such complex grammar.
In my language, the social position of the person (which includes
gender) is essential to determining how to describe them.
Perhaps in gettext we need a "identity" as well as "plurals" field. ;)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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