From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T03:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Message catalogs (I18N) overnight hack...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: Message catalogs (I18N) overnight hack...


> > It could perhaps use tags which were automatically stripped out in
> > translation:
> > 
> >     printf("I gave the <THING:%s> to <RECIP:%s>", thing, recipient)
> > 
> > Also, do we worry about languages where word endings change
> > dependent on function? Languages which require noun.capitalize ?
> 
> You forgot something: Word order

No, I think you misunderstood. Word order was 
the reason he suggested the labels in the first 
place.

Hal