Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky nenya ms mff cuni cz>]

On 21 Feb 2003, Christian Rose wrote:

> 
> Ok. I've now tried to log bug reports for every module with plural
> messages that's possibly affected, basically by searching for messages
> using %d and %ld and then do further manual filtering from there.
> However, as I'm not experienced in thinking in a different plural scheme
> and how messages might be affected by that, there might of course be
> modules and messages that I missed. And vice versa. Any help here in
> finding further messages with plural problems is very welcome.

There will be ton of these. IMHO it's long and neverending process. 
Welcome to plural mess, GNOME!

Every translator should report a plural form problem here and to the
maintainer when translating. That's probably the only way.

Stanislav

> 
> Here's the bug list:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106695
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in file-roller
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106696
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in gdm
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106697
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in gnome-games
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106698
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in gnome-panel
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106699
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in gnome-terminal
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106700
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in gnome-utils
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106701
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in libgtop
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106702
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in nautilus
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106703
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in nautilus-media
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106704
> Please use ngettext for handling plurals in system-monitor
> 
> Would be nice if those could be fixed in the GNOME 2.3 cycle.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
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