Re: Translation of nummeric values (application gnome-schedule)

[Miloslav Trmac <mitr volny cz>]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:10:30PM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Because our application uses numeric nth values like 'first',
> 'second', ... a lot and because translating "1th" "2e", .. is 'also'
> non-trivial, we decided to implement something that translates a numeric
> nth to a written version of the value.
This is probably much more complicated that you think.
For languages like Czech, "fourth" depends on the gender
(man, woman, child) and the declination (7 for singular, 7 for plural).
Word splicing is simply Too Hard(tm).
	Mirek