Re: l10n architecture proposal available for comments

> Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>> Axel Hecht wrote:
>>> Rimas Kudelis wrote:
>>>> Do you intend to support Grammatical cases [1] in any way? If yes,
>>>> then how do you see it?..
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case
>>>>
>>>> RQ
>>> Yes, it works pretty much like the gender example in
>>> http://people.mozilla.com/~axel/l20n/js-l20n/sample-01.html.
>>>
>>> If you create a sample output similar to one of the js examples I did, I
>>> can create a corresponding lol file to demo that.
>>>
>>> Sadly, neither German nor English really show this off canonically, so I
>>> didn't do an example for that yet.
>>
>>
>> OK, here's an example. From Microsoft Windows XP. Every user has a "My
>> Documents" folder there. Now in English, you can see "Jane Doe's
>> Documents" for user Jane Doe, "Jack Daniels' Documents" for user Jack
>> Daniels etc.
>>
>> Meanwhile in Lithuanian, to be gramatically correct, it cannot be
>> "Rimas Kudelis' dokumentai" or "Rimas' Kudelis' dokumentai" or "Rimas
>> Kudelis dokumentai" or anything like that. It has to be "Rimo Kudelio
>> dokumentai".
>>
>> And your gender example would sound like this:
>>
>> Gerb. p. Kudeli,
>>
>> šis tekstas lokalizuotas
>>
>> Jūs užsisakėte vieną prekę.
>>
>> Name: Kudelis
>> gender: male
>> Items: 1
>> Language: Lietuvių
>>
>> Now, do you think such DYNAMIC casing would be possible?
>>
>> RQ
>
> Probably still somewhat simplified, but here it goes:
>
> <owner: "Rimas Kudelis"
>  othercase: "Rimo Kudelio"
>  gender: "male">
>
> <myDocuments: "${owner.othercase} dokumentai">
>
> Of course, you could have myDocuments depend on the gender of owner, for
> example.
>
> The tricky part comes when you actually realize that you want to get
> "owner" from the user settings, at which point you probably bite a
> bullet here, as I doubt that a user likes the idea of entering his name
> in all genders, nor do I expect that there's a descent machine logic to
> guess the grammar for a name.