Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> huh ? java localization has plural handling:
>>
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/choiceFormat.html
>
> But this requires actually writing a little code to handle that.
> Gettext .po files can handle plurals directly without needing to
> write any extra code by hand.
okey...that's a nice thing but in the big picture I would say it's a
minor one.
The problem is, as I mentioned some languages have more forms than just
2 (singular and plural) noun forms, The ChoiceFormat approach would
require either a) application knowledge of the language, which is a
broken abstraction or b) a property lookup for all numbers 1-10 (not
practical).
Perhaps this isn't important for the languages we are targeting. I just
wanted to point out that gettext is actually a well thought out framework.
-Jason
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Jason T. Greene
Lead, POJO Cache
JBoss, a division of Red Hat