[Xfce-i18n] Generating unique duplicate names

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Nov 9 15:21:14 CET 2005


Rimas Kudelis wrote:
> It would be OK for Lithuanian too, BUT... I think we'd discussed that  
> before. Isn't that what plurals are for? if you would use plural form  
> of gettext (ngettext, AFAIR), this problem would be much more easily  
> solvable, I think...

ngettext() cannot handle this, unless we add .po files for the C locale,
which is certainly not what we want. This is because ngettext() takes
exactly two strings: The singular form and the plural form.

> best regards,
> Rimas

Benedikt



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