Re: [PEPr] Comment on Internationalisation::Maketext

> The code could use some pearifying but I don't think that is much of a > problem. I am 100% in favour of adding this to pear. It is a valuable > addition as well as a very interesting project. Hans Juergen, don't get > discouraged by a somewhat unqualyfied comment. Please, this is not a personnal attack on Juergen. My point of view comes from many years of work in the domain of translation, including for example http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/translation.php which offers more than 33 languages. To be honest, I believe that plural Gettext is absurd and should be removed from GNU/Linux. Simply because you cannot "code" plural using a computer language. Human languages are far too complicated for that. Now, if you tell me that you are going to code 'plural', 'accusative' and the 'zero' figure, like in the Maketext proposal, my answer is 'dream'. Even if Hans Juergen is valuable, it can only lead to PEAR users (especially English native speakers) believe that it is POSSIBLE to code sentences. Which is not. Hence, people will loose their work and may need to recode their strings from scratch. If your application/site require several languages, the best is to write a different sentence for each case. Like explained in the article. My € 0.02 :) Cheers, Jean-Michel