Managing error strings in C

[Ted Richards]

In article <1991Jan19.181522.23871 at santra.uucp> sja at 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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