On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:10:41PM +0100, Nick Lamb <njl98r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't think any of us take it seriously (I often don't remember to
> set up i18n for ages after building a new system) because we've
> come to accept that something very *like* English will eventually
> be written by everyone, no matter how they spell colour, or what
> they call petrol and nappies. (*)
>
> Anyway, expecting everyone to support translation catalogs just so
> that you can hack around bizarre grammatical features in some
> languages is a bit much. Instead try re-writing the code if you
> can, so that it uses separate phrases in each case.
This is a very uninformed opinion from somebody working on gimp. I am
shocked.
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