Re: [Amsn-lang] Language variants

[Janos V. <jv...@ho...>]

Hello,

I, too, have been thinking about different gender forms in some languages 
lately. But I have an idea about how to solve this problem.

Instead of writing two language files, one for male and one for female 
users, we should have the keys duplicated when needed. For example English 
would have:

online Online

while Slovene has

online-m Prijavljen
online-f Prijavljena

In order not to need changing practically all the keys in all the scripts, 
the language-managing code would automatically check for available -m and -f 
suffixed keys and apply them when needed: if there is a $1 parameter in the 
key that is a contact, it would check its sex, otherwise the user's sex 
would be applied. Of course, everyone would have to set their and their's 
contact's sex manually (or maybe aMSN users could exchange it through 
x-clientcaps :)).

Now if you think this is a good idea, I think I can do it:)

Janos

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