https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19190


Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Niklas Laxström <[email protected]>  2009-06-17 
07:40:10 UTC ---
Some comments:

I do not find it acceptable to not support plural. It should be part of bare
minimum of i18n support of any software (and the array approach is not going to
work for that). How to do it, I see three alternatives:
1) call MediaWiki to parse it.
2) implement a i18n library in javascript
3) implement a system that can generate the code for php and javascript from
common source (i.e. language neutral i18n library, or just library with
different language versions kept in sync)

3) is of course a huge project (and 2) too), but on the other hand it is stupid
that every software needs to re-implement it. 1) is probably too slow, as
discussed above.

GENDER is problematic, because it depends on external data (gender of username
X). We should also support number formatting.

> (with big comment headers that identify
> these msgs are copied from the js and to modify
> them in the js instead of here)

This concerns me a bit. The whole stuff is a huge piece of code with only a few
developers that know it. It is a lot to learn to just improve wording of few
messages. Although grep and JavaScript string syntax escaping are probably
enough for most of the cases.


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