Re: Grammar problems in gnomecal

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Quoting from the first message in this thread, here are a few of the
problem translations:

> Recur on the 1st Monday   -- Povtor{ja}etsja v 1yj ponedel'nik
> Recur on the 1st Thursday -- Povtor{ja}etsja v 1u{ju} sredu
> Recur on the 2nd Thursday -- Povtor{ja}etsja vo 2u{ju} sredu

Notice that the translation of "1st" is dependent on the following word?
That is the problem.  Unless I am mistaken, libglade will not make this
any easier.  Furthermore, the english rules for deciding on a suffix for
the day number (st, nd, rd or th) may not map very well onto the target
language.

This is a difficult problem.

James.

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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, James Aylett wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 06:23:56PM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> Erm ... possibly I've reconstructed this message wrongly and you weren't
> talking about that at all. I'm talking about situations where you have:
> 
> [Every] [<field>] [bumpers] [day(s)]
> 
> as four separate UI objects (two display fields, an editable field, and a
> pair of bumpers). In a situation like that, it strikes me that libglade with
> localised interface files _would_ work. It certainly works in similar
> situations on other systems ...
>