[Xfce-i18n] Generating unique duplicate names

[Daichi Kawahata]

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:56:46 +0100
Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Hey Daichi and translators,

Hi,

> The following piece of code is used to generate unique names for
> duplicated/linked files:

(snip)

> Now my question is: Is the above easily translatable to other
> languages (I know that it'll work for german and a bunch of other
> languages, but whatever e.g. non-european languages)? I don't care
> if the 20th duplicate's name doen't look right, but the first 1-5
> duplicate names should be properly translatable.

It makes me imagined Nautilus and Slavic languages immediately, from
what they did,

In Russian:

    msgid "%dst link to %s"
    msgstr "%d-я ссылка на %s"

    msgid "%dnd link to %s"
    msgstr "%d-я ссылка на %s"

    msgid "%drd link to %s"
    msgstr "%d-я ссылка на %s"

    msgid "%dth link to %s"
    msgstr "%d-я ссылка на %s"

In Czech:

    msgid "%dst link to %s"
    msgstr "%d. odkaz na %s"

    msgid "%dnd link to %s"
    msgstr "%d. odkaz na %s"

    msgid "%drd link to %s"
    msgstr "%d. odkaz na %s"

    msgid "%dth link to %s"
    msgstr "%d. odkaz na %s"

IIRC, without 1st-3rd forms (at least in Russian) like in English,
(adjectival) ordinal numbers are affected by the noun, I think only
not putting `%u' at 1st-3rd occurrences is good for them, probably
ngettext() isn't required unless Thunar will be capable to create
multiple links/copies at once, in this case of course, even 1st-3rd
strings will need ngettext(). Correct me, my memory is rusty.

As for the language Japanese, I see no problems.

Regards,
-- 
Daichi

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