Re: [PATCH] Use plural form in i18n.

[Petr Pisar]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:32:50AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> That is, translate the English:
>   "no memory for %d byte allocation"
> 
> To this equivalent in the translations?:
>   "not enough memory to allocate %d bytes"
> 
This looks good.

> The only singular case would be "1 byte" with all others being plural
> (0 bytes, 1 byte, 12 bytes) and since I don't think "1 byte" is a
> valid case it doesn't need separate singular and plural cases.  I
> think.
> 
This is exact example of case where ngettext _must_ be used. There are many
languages that have plural form depending on number. See `The problem of
plural forms' section in `info libc "Advanced gettext functions"' command
output.

-- Petr

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