Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Simple Patch on PLURAL_MATCHES for 3.1.4
From: Gabriele Bartolini (g.bartol@comune.prato.it)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 23:47:31 PST
In 08.57 19/01/00 -0600, Gilles Detillieux ha scritto:
>According to Geoff Hutchison:
>> At 6:10 PM +0100 1/18/00, J. op den Brouw wrote:
>> >made if very litte patch, that uses (yet another) config
>> >option: plural_suffix, but maybe this is wrongly chosen.
>> >
>> >plural_suffix: s # for english/default
>> >
>> >plural_suffix: en # The Netherlands
>>
>> No, I think this is a good idea. Obviously a patch to defaults.cc
>> also needs to be made, and I'd suggest a diff -c3p if you don't have
>> a -u.
>
>Yes, I too like anything that improves internationalisation. With a
>documentation entry for 3.2's defaults.cc, and a note in hts_template.html,
>I'd give this a +1 for 3.2.0b1.
>
I raise the problem ... for example in italian this is not possible. Indeed
we don't have any suffixes, simply plural words ends with different
letters, depending on each word (in particular if it's a male or female
noun: for example usually if a word is "female" ends with an 'a' - I know
probably this can sound weird - we don't add anything to it, simply change
last letter with an 'e').
And so it's not an insertion of a suffix, but a substitution ... And
unfortunately there are many exceptions too. But it's the italian language ...
Probably we should add the chance to disable this attribute too for
languages that don't use suffixes. But I understand it's interesting for
the english language and, I suppose, for dutch too ... And so I vote +1,
but please pay attention to "my" problem.
Ciao
-Gabriele
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Gabriele Bartolini
Computer Programmer (are U sure?)
U.O. Rete Civica - Comune di Prato
Prato - Italia - Europa
e-mail: g.bartol@comune.prato.it
http://www.po-net.prato.it
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