Quoting Chak Man Li (2014-06-04 20:10:20)
> Hello Stats,
>
> I am investigating L20n and got a question for special cases handling in a
> L20n. I could not find any example to do that even with L20n expressions
> (due to unsupported indexOf function). Could you give me some ideas /
> suggestions?
>
>
>
> *possessive*
> -> "This is {name}'s dog"
> -> "This is {name}' dog", if {name} ends with "s"
>
> *in French*:
> -> "C'est le chien de {name}", if {name} starts with a consonant, e.g.
> "Babette"
> -> "C'est le chien d'{name}", if {name} starts with a vowel e.g. "Amelie"
Hi Chak,
This is sadly a limitation of L20n at this time. We have an open
ticket to address this in the future, but it's not being actively
worked on.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925189
As a work-around, you could expose the first and the last letter on the
object that's passed to L20n:
{
name: {
value: 'Amelie',
first: 'A',
last: 'e'
}
}
And then in the localization resource a localizer can create a macro
like this:
English
<endsWithS($letter) {
$letter == 's' ?
'yes' : 'no'
}>
<dog[endsWithS($name.last)] {
yes: "This is {{$name}}' dog",
no: "This is {{$name}}'s dog"
}>
French
<commenceParVoyelle($lettre) {
$lettre == 'a' ||
$lettre == 'e' ||
$lettre == 'i' ||
$lettre == 'o' ||
$lettre == 'u' ||
$lettre == 'y' ?
'oui' : 'non'
}>
<dog[commenceParVoyelle($name.first)] {
oui: "C'est le chien d'{{$name}}",
non: "C'est le chien de {{$name}}"
}>
This allows to keep the separation between the code of the app and its
localizations. The logic specific to French lives in the French
localization resource.
However, this is clearly suboptimal, because other languages might need
more metadata than just the first and the last letter. I confess I'm
not a big fan of this approach.
If you know which languages you want to support, this may however be an
acceptable solution.
HTH,
-stas
ps. CC'ing the tools-l10n list which will be interested by this case.
--
@stas
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