Re: l10n architecture proposal available for comments

> Axel Hecht <l10n@...> wrote:
>> Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>>> Do you intend to support Grammatical cases [1] in any way? If yes,
>>> then how do you see it?..
>> Yes, it works pretty much like the gender example in
>> http://people.mozilla.com/~axel/l20n/js-l20n/sample-01.html.
>
> The example seems to show how to change the surrounding sentence to
> match the gender of a replacement word. The replacement determines the
> gender, and the sentence has to adapt.
>
> Case works the other way round: the structure of the sentence determines
> the case a replacement word must take, and the spelling of the word
> changes depending on case it needs to take to fit into a given sentence.
>
> Often both grammatical categories (three actually - there's also number)
> work together and require changing both the sentence and replacement
> word for everything to agree.
>
> Consider also this situation in Russian:
>
> 1 file = 1 ÆÁÊÌ
> 4 files = 4 ÆÁÊÌÁ
> 5 files = 5 ÆÁÊÌÏ×
> 21 file = 21 ÆÁÊÌ
>
> The word "ÆÁÊÌ" (file) is in nominative singular in the first line,
> genitive singular in the second line (yes, singular, even though there
> are four of them), genitive plural in the third line, and nominative
> singular again in the last line.
>