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From: ted@isgtec.uucp (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Managing error strings in C
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Date: 21 Jan 91 20:28:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.122227@lotus.lotus.com> <620@necssd.NEC.COM> <1991Jan19.163652.9203@hemel.bull.co.uk> <1991Jan19.181522.23871@santra.uucp>
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In article <1991Jan19.181522.23871@santra.uucp> sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes:
 
> (Even that isn't enough if you want really fancy messages - how can
> you pluralize words or determine if you need "a" or "an" articles etc.
> For a multi-lingual system doing that takes separate binaries for
> different human languages or writing the message system in an
> interpreted language.  Yuck.)

No it doesn't.  All you need are separate messages for singular and
plural, for each type of word that could appear following "a" or "an",
etc.

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