[Xfce-i18n] Orage plural forms

Juha Kautto kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi
Sun Nov 17 08:58:23 CET 2013


17.11.2013 1:59, Саша Петровић kirjoitti:
> New string no. 279 should be in plural forms, please. (Txt: Added %d 
> alarms. Processed %d events.)
> Old string no. 280 should be in plural forms (Txt: Found %d alarms of 
> which %d are active. (Searched %d recurring alarms.). But it is too 
> complicated even for plural forms (multiple numbers).
> Only solution is to separate sentences in 2 string for string no. 279 
> & 3 strings for string no. 280. Sorry for worst English.
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This is bug https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8425.

The problem is that when I used those special .po plural form 
translation definitions, I actually got more bug reports of wrong 
translations, so I removed them all. This was due to most translators 
not being able to understand and handle them correctly. I now hesitate 
to use them again. Maybe I should split those strings in code and test 
specifically for 1 or many; but that does not help with those languages 
that have more than 2 forms. Hmm. I am open for suggestions.


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