Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Chris Kennedy <chrisken@mail.utexas.edu>:
Does anyone have suggestions for creating translatable strings for rankings?
I need to generate strings for 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/etc. ideally without a limit, but don't know of a simple translatable solution.
Right now I just have individual t() strings for 1st/2nd/3rd, then a blanket t($i .'th') for the rest, under the untested theory that translators could manually add translations for Nth into their .po files up to a reasonable limit. I realize that this will not work for extractor.php purposes and is English-centric.
Thoughts?
Are there existing math libraries that might help? Simple solution might be a SQL table that you add the exceptions to 'th' to. So the translation for 1 would contain 1st and the translation for 2 would 2nd and your 'th' default would be suffixed for everything else.
Earnie, how would that SQL table work for translations? Different languages need very different suffixes. I don't see what table structure you envision here. Gabor