Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 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. 

Actually, yes, it was. You just aren't subscribed to the i18n list where 
this happened.

> Havoc

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