Am 04.11.2013 00:48, schrieb John Ralls:
On Nov 3, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2013 08:01:38 John Ralls wrote:
On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:32 AM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]>
wrote:
And that's only three languages that I know. I'm sure many other
languages have still different ways to form larger numbers. These
oddities in languages can't be covered in only with gettext as far
as I know, or you will have to add quite a lot of individual
numbers to translate.
ICU has that built in and localized:
userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/numbers
But note:
"ICU provides number spellout rules for several locales, but not for
all of the locales that ICU supports, and not all of the predefined
rule types. Also, as of release 2.6, some of the provided rules are
known to be incomplete."
But I see no reason to add the dependency for something that's already
done via gettext.
This is the part I don't understand. How can gettext handle all the
different number spellout rules ?
Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant in " These oddities in languages can't be
covered in only with gettext as far as I know”, reading it as “these oddities … can
be covered only with gettext…”. Quite the opposite of what you meant.
I also failed to catch that in spite of all of the comments in gnc-ui-utils.c,
none of the strings are actually submitted to gettext, which is explained with
Christian’s comment about the integer_to_string function being untranslatable.
Sigh.
So we *can* do that only in English.
So I guess the question is do enough non-english speakers actually need it? The
Wikipedia article Thomas cited earlier suggests not, but perhaps you have more
direct knowledge otherwise.
With that answered, do we want to bring in ICU as a dependency to meet the
requirement. The documentation of that class is not up to the standards of some
others, and I wasn’t able to figure out what locales are actually supported.
Maybe I'm wrong but for printing on checks normally you print the digits
as words: 123456,78 to
---one-two-three-four-five-six and seven-eight cents--- (per cent ...)
or do you really write:
onehundredtwentythreethousandfourhundredfiftysix Dollar and seventyeight
cents?
To make the checks save to manipulating the amount first sort of writing
seems to me is enough and it is translatable to other languages.
Best regards
Johannes Kapune
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