Re: Plurals in translations was Re: [STRAW POLL] Help on i18n translations?

>>>In French, this would be incorrect as the condition is >= 1
>>>(i.e. 0 -> singular). There was a problem like that in another
>>>project (ROX) and the source (and English messages) had to be
>>>changed so that it could be translatable into French.
>>>
>>>
>>Gettext handles that. You define a rule which defines which of a set
>>of translations is used based on the number passed to ngettext.
>>
>>
>Yup. But we'll still have to modify the code in several places, if we
>actually are checking n!=1.
>
>

Yes, but this it's done at the same time the code is converted to
gettext. That conversion needs changing the code anyway:

printf("%d files%s updated", n, (n==1)?"":"s");

to

printf(ngettext("%d file updated", "%d files updated", n), n);

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Received on Fri Apr 2 22:58:44 2004