[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Marius Vollmer]

Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> writes:

>> In general, we should try to reduce the need for context and
>> complicated translations.  The classical example might:
>>
>>    Searched in %d files and %d directories.
>>
>> You will never be able to translate this nicely for all languages
>> because of the wierd way they handle plurals, etc, and because of the
>> combinatorial explosion.
>
> Translator can change the order of the arguments with "$".
> See "man fprintf" and the Single Unix Specification.

Yep, I know.  Will it be enough?  I found this interesting:

    http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod#A_Localization_Horror_Story:_It_Could_Happen_To_You