i18n() issue

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 09 of December 2003 10:20, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2003 19:01, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > Another small thing: if %1 ends in 's', the string should be "Join %1' %2
> > Game". I could check for this, but different languages might need to
> > replace "'s" under different circumstances than english. How to handle
> > the possessive suffix in translatable messages?
>
> You better close your eyes and ignore all that. Otherwise you'll find that
> other languages make the translation depend on the gender of the player and
> you'll find that you have no solution for that :)

 Actually, the solution wouldn't be necessarily that difficult. E.g. for 
Czech, just a huge neural network could perhaps do ;).

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