On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:08:46AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Have I understood you right, that debian-installer is not able to support > > ngettext, or is it usable, but not practical? > I assumed that it would be too complex to try to use ngettext from > debconf-based shell scripts, because I don't think there's any > supporting code for this. But maybe support from the shell isn't needed > -- I'm not sure if Joey's comments are addressed at this particular > msgid, or at something else?
Exactly my problem: it seems that at least the templates are not ready for plural forms (while they have not been needed recently) and so it makes no sense to introduce anything on my side. Interesting: the KDE translations seem to have some non-GNU system for the plural forms, which I haven't looked into yet. So far I have found examples for this in the e2fsckprogs package - it seems to work good enough and is a standard function of gettext. According to gettext manual, ngettext should be supported for shell scripts, so it should be a matter of replacing the functions where it is needed, wouldn't it? -- Nikolai Prokoschenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
