Hi Dimitry,
Today Dimitri wrote:
[...]
> It would be nice to have it implemented in qooxdoo. However, that would
> require changes in both framework and toolchain. At the moment,
> internal translations structure looks like that:
>
> translations: {
> ...
> "ru": {
> "cow": "korova",
> "cows": "korovy"
> }
> }
>
> This could be changed to:
>
> translations: {
> ...
> "ru": {
> "cow": "korova",
> "cows": [ "korova", "korovy", "korov" ]
> }
> }
>
> and locales structure could contain a function to compute plural form
> from ordinal, created from a Plural-Forms PO header by the compiler. A
> valid C expression will be a valid JavaScript expression, too, and we
> can benefit from this. I've examined several gettext implementations
> for JavaScript; those that do support Plural-Forms simply evaluate this
> expression unchanged as JavaScript. For security purposes, we could
> validate the expression first, to make sure it is restricted to
> arithmetic, logical and ternary operators.
>
> I think that we could start with implementing minimal, non-breaking
> changes in framework, namely internal structure for translations,
> plural classifier in locales, translation logic in tr*() functions.
> Meanwhile, we could experiment with John Spackman's QxCompiler to
> introduce Plural-Form parsing##SELECTION_END##. As soon as POC is
> ready, it can be ported to generate.py or Grunt based toolchain,
> whichever becomes mainstream at that moment.
I think that qooxdoos multi lingual abilities are one of its big
assets, so improving these, by all means would be a great thing.
cheers
tobi
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