Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Jordi Mallach <jordi sindominio net>]

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?

I'm all for this.

We could use some input from sun people, as afaik, Solaris has its own
gettext. Also afaict, gettext 0.11 is better for portability stuff, as
systems with non glibc systems just have to install a pair of shared
libraries to use GNU gettext. But I don't use systems other than
GNU/Linux, so I can't tell for sure.

Kenneth wants to switch intltool to 0.11.x in future releases (which
would support po/LINGUAS and drop configure.in's ALL_LINGUAS entirely).
This would be a step in the right direction.

Jordi
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