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Subject:    Re: kgeography changes needed for agglutinative languages like
From:       "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2009-01-01 7:56:31
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На Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:52:02 +0200, Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> написав:

> Hi,
>
> Can you expand the use of %1 (Capital of %1) to actual strings (
> Capital of state, Capital of province ...) at least for the first
> screen? Because for languages with heavy agglutination like Malayalam,
> the prepositions ('of' in this example)  changes the noun (state,
> province) itself.
>
> for exmaple
> capital - തലസ്ഥാനം
> state - സംസ്ഥാനം
> province - പ്രവിശ്യ
>
> now
> Capital of state - സംസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ തലസ്ഥാനം
> Capital of province - പ്രവിശ്യയുടെ തലസ്ഥാനം
>
> of takes two different forms here and the noun is changed as well. Any
> generalization would look awkward. So please expand it.
>
> I would say this is the case for any application, but I wanted to
> start with kgeography first.
>
> Regards
> Praveen

Hi,

You can use Transcript to solve your problem.

http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Concepts/Transcript

Regards,
Yuri


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