Parameters depending on other parameters?

Apologies for the obscure title; the character limit is very short!

Before I buy I2 Localization, I'd like to know if the following are supported, and how easily they can be done:

If I have a string of the form "there are 10 players", where '10' is a number provided at runtime, are the translations able to perform logic based on the number? E.g. changing between 'is' and 'are', and 'player' and 'players' in English, and other more complex logic in other languages that have special rules for 0, 10+ and so on? Perhaps a syntax with some scripting, like "there <num==1,is><num!=1,are> <num> player<num!=1,s>", or perhaps something higher-level than that to avoid repetition.

Similarly, am I able to do things like supply a gender as a parameter and make this available to translations?

Lastly (maybe this is asking a bit much), if I wanted to insert the name of some object into a string, but that object can have a different gender in different languages, how could that be done? For example, if I want a string that said "The player has just picked up a <object>" , and a list of objects ("sword", "shield"), and the sentence needs to change in some languages based on the gender of the object. Ignore the a/an in that sentence for now - if the answers to these questions are good, that shouldn't be a problem too!

Thanks!

Hi Frank, thanks for the reply!

It's great that plurals are being worked on! I'm not sure that zero/one/two/few/many/other is the correct split though; some language rules are more complex even than this. See for example section 11.2.6 of the GNU gettext manual ( www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html ) - Polish apparently has different forms for numbers ending 2 through 4 and 5 through 1, and there are many other languages with weird rules.

Just a thought

Genders are also complex, yes When you say handle it myself, do you mean by e.g. combining the gender with the string ID, e.g. "POINTS_MALE"? If so that's not too much of a burden, though it does mean there will be duplicate strings for languages that don't use the gender.

For the dynamic objects I'll also have to have alongside the translations, for each language, a table of which objects have which language - is there any facility for that? I suppose I could keep them as 'translations', e.g. "SWORD" translates as "male" which I then parse as a gender to then pick a string "ITEM_ACQUIRED_MALE". That just feels a bit messy and inefficient!

One more thing I've just remembered to ask; does the plugin localize number formats, e.g. will "1.23" be turned into "1,23" (with a comma) in French etc.?

Hi, did you get round to implementing plurals in the end?

Hi Frank,

This is excellent! Thank you very much!!

I was beginning to worry that I2 wouldn't be good enough, as I'd also done research into pluralisation etc (Polish has some nutty rules too!) - this fills me with hope again