zo_strformat - lost in translation
 

Heya,

Run into a strange behavior of zo_strformat:

When using:
It returns:
When using:
It returns:
Any idea why I get in "French" mode such a highly sophisticated output?

Using good old string.format causes no issues.

Cheers,
Gandalf

Actually i saw this behaviour recently on my plugin.
It seems ZOS translation is including some contraction rules for french language.

"me" in french is a personal pronoun (referring to the subject) that is contracted to "m'" when followed by a vowel. (English ref. http://www.saberfrances.com.ar/gramm...-pronouns.html)

Some rules may even replace part of guild names: I saw on my plugin than the incorrect static french translation
("You met somebody from Le comptoir des artisans" - "Le comptoir des artisans" beeing a guild name) was correctly fixed to :
"De le" ("from the" in masculine gender in French) is wrong and replaced by the correct contracted form "du".

I don't know how many grammar rules are implemented.

Take a look here: http://wiki.esoui.com/How_to_add_localization_support

But shouldn't "Show me your face" just abbreviate the pronoun me if there is a vowel in the next word's beginning?
me your -> me your
me any -> m'any

In French, Y is a vowel (A,E, I, O U, Y). It seems it's not always the case in English though.
And even if there are no pronominal verb in french starting with the letter Y, we have a pronoun "y" that can replace location or things.
- "Je m'y suis habitué" (I got used to it) and not "Je me y suis habitué"
- "Vous vous y êtes habitué" (You got used to it) is not contracted.

And as always in french, there might be exceptions. ;)
(And thank you for attending this French lesson ! :D )

Oh, my French lessons were outdated (school was "some" years ago :p) so I forgot about the y :D
Thanks for the clarification.

Merci beaucoup

and : https://wiki.esoui.com/How_to_format...h_zo_strformat

As fare I know, there is no documentation of what implicit conversions zo_strformat does apply.
Nor that implicit conversions are language specific.

However there is still the explicit modifier <<X:1>> :)
Since this suppresses the implicit conversion. Might be worth to point that out in the documentation.

Many thanks, that was the information I was looking for!

Cheers,
Gandalf