[Xfce-i18n] Help with plurals in po files

[Jean-François Wauthy]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 21:17 +0000, Geraint Rowlands wrote:
> I'm translating Xfce4.4 to Welsh, and am currently working on
> thunar.po. I've tripped up on the plurals for file copies (%uth copy
> of %s).
> 

> Welsh plurals generally work the same as English (book-books =
> llyfr-llyfrau for single or plural). Numerics are a lot more
> complicated though.
> 
This is a known issue of translations that is addressed by gettext.
Being a native French speaker i don't exactly know how but i recommend
you to read:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_150.html

and eventually search in the archives of this mailing list as it has
been discussed before.

> My current solution is to say 'copy %u of %s' instead, but how would I
> accomodate these forms in a .po file if I were unable to worm my way
> out of it?
> 

It needs some declarations in the .po file and support in the source
code declaring the string.

Probably some people speaking a language with multiple plural forms can
shed some light on the better way to do that.

-- 
Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at xfce.org>
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