Re: Updated Fresnel Ontologies and Examples - internationalization

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:33:41 -0500

Chris Bizer wrote:
>
>>Chris Bizer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi David,
>>>
>>>yes, good idea. What do you think about having a fresnel:contentNoValue
>>>property on the styleDescription class. Meaning you could say
>>>
>>>:knowsStyle fresnel:valueStyle [ fresnel:contentAfter ", " ;
>>> fresnel:contentLast ". "
>
> ;
>
>>> fresnel:contentNoValue
>
> "This
>
>>>guy knows nobody." ] ;
>>>
>>>
>>
>>It's hard for me to see how this fits in, as I'm not familiar with the
>>rest of Fresnel.
>>
>>On a different note, the N3 code you showed seems to make some
>>localization assumptions specific to English (or another similar
>>language). ", " assumes a left-to-right text flow and also assumes the
>>use of space (in Chinese, for example, there's no space between words).
>>In Chinese, I think you can also just juxtapose several nouns to make up
>>a list without having to use list separators.
>
>
> This is a hard one. No idea.
>
> :knowsStyle fresnel:valueStyle [ fresnel:contentAfter ", "_at_en ;
> fresnel:contentLast ".
> _at_en ] ;
>
> also doesn't help. Anybody else any solution?

I was thinking: given that this is a style and styles can be selected
with a query, don't we already have a solution or this problem? I mean,
if chinese doesn't need contentBefore, don't put it in that style!

as for "A, B, and C" I say "forget it" :-)

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