https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22985
Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] | |rodha.net --- Comment #7 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 2011-03-29 10:55:43 UTC --- 1) Generally it would be advisable to be able set an arbitrary or variable language context. (For example in "Spanish for beginners" in the Spanish Wikiversity, there may be important hints in user preference languages that users already understand, even though the lesson itself builds on Spanish and images) 2) Generally, knowing the current language context may be crucial. (For instance, "$1 user(s)" needs to use different PLURAL rules depending on its language, be it the wiki language, a user language, or any of either fallback languages, or an arbitarily choose one) 3) For some complex or patchwork messages, e.g. "user X copied/moved Y file(s)/dictory(ies)" having GENDER, PLURAl and variable insertions of other messages, when parts are not all localized, it may be even worth knowing the available languages of the pieces so as to find one language for the entire message and not mix bits and pieces from various languages to a non-sentencce or gibberish. (Remember that snippets of different languages may not fit together and may not be suited to replace each other across languages. A simple example: In English, you may have "Uploaded the $1" where $1 is "image" or "video", while French or German (retranslated) has "Uploaded $1" where $1 is "the image" or "the video" since German has two different articles here. Mixed translations will display no article at all, or duplicate articles, respectively) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
