Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> I just wrote a short piece of text on the problems of plurals:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#plurals
> As mentioned there, GNU gettext since version 0.10.38 includes a
> function called ngettext for solving these problems with plurals. It
> would be nice to be able to use that in future versions of GNOME, so
> that we can get plurals right.
> 
> However, as this is a GNU extension, I'm unsure what the level of
> support there is in other gettext implementations, so it looks like a
> portability problem. Opinions?
> 

Whoa, lots of bugs filed and people are making ngettext() changes, yet
as far as I see the portability problem has not been addressed at all.
We need a plan there before people start adding ngettext() calls. 

Havoc