This is a good question. Appending an 's' is not a very good i18n solution.
Some languages, like Spanish, pluralize the adjective (when there is one) as
well as the noun. Also the verb conjugation changes when the noun is the
subject.
Other languages handle it differently, and some of them don't even have the
letter 's' in their character sets.
Here are the three options I like, maybe the PMs can chime in about
suggesting which we should do for v1.1:
1. ignore it, live with a little poor grammar, which happens to work out
pretty much OK for French and Spanish.
2. reconstruct the wording as Eugene suggests, to sidestep the problem.
3. have a singular form and plural form in properties files for each
relevant phrase, e.g.:
GROUP_FIELD=group field
GROUP_FIELDS=group fields
which can then be translated separately according to each locales rules of
pluralization.
thoughts?
Sam
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Eugene Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> During the i18n effort, a couple words were encountered that are
> pluralized (appended an s to) manually in the jsp layer. I'm curious if the
> strings containing these words could be tweaked slightly, in order to allow
> the aforementioned words to be present there in a singular case.
>
> The strings encountered were on the Define mandatory/hidden fields page.
>
> They are:
>
>
>
> Assigning Clients to positions
>
> Groups Fields
>
>
>
> I propose changing these to:
>
> Assigning a Client to positions (I'm not sure if this is the best way to
> phrase this)
>
> Group Fields
>
>
>
> Does anyone object to / see some problems with this?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eugene
>
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