Thanks, Henrik. We'll talk it over with the translators.

There's no shortage of hard problems to solve in the i18n-space...

- Martin

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 20:47, Henrik Nyh <[email protected]> wrote:

> The grammatical term is noun cases. See my previous
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n/browse_thread/thread/f20a181cdeed130e
> .
>
> What we ended up doing at Bukowskis was to have the translator
> rephrase so we didn't have to inflect the place names (in our case).
> Something like "To: Eva" instead of "To Eva" might be enough.
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 19:58, Martin Svalin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm not even sure what the grammatical name for this is, but we ran into
> > problems translating "to" and "from", as in "to Eva" or "from Eva".
> > In Finnish, our translator tells us the correct translations are "Evalle"
> > and "Evalta" respectively. How would you handle this case? Does the I18n
> > module provide a way to build some sort of inflector that can be used
> here?
> > Maybe we could leave the translation of "to" empty in Finnish, but run
> the
> > name through an inflector…
> > Has anyone else run into something like this?
> > - Martin
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