On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:49 pm, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm starting a new thread to discuss this in its own context.
> >
> > We've established that there's a problem with plurals in eastern
> > languages, and that this should be fixed before we do our next release.
> >
> > I came up with something like this to fix one case:
> >
> > setCaption(i18n("%1 - %2 Segment: 1 - %3 ",
> > "%1 - %2 Segment: %2 - %3 ")
> > .arg(getDocument()->getTitle())
> > .arg(m_segments.size())
> > .arg(view));
> >
> > The developer info is very vague on this point:
> >
> > msgStr = i18n("Creating index file: 1 message done",
> > "Creating index file: %n messages done", num);
> >
> > I'm not sure what the syntax is here. It looks like ": 1" is a particle
> > by itself, so a case of (": 1", ": %1").arg(foo) would use the "singular"
> > form for the case of foo == 1, I guess, and then choose whatever
> > combobulated degree of obfuscation necessary if foo > 1
> >
> > If that is true, then what happens when you have something like ("Field:
> > %1").arg(foo) in the code? My guess is it has to turn into ("Field:: 1",
> > "Field:: %1").arg(foo) but I'm really not sure at all.
> >
> > Finally, I'm still not completely sure exactly which cases are going to
> > create problems. What about things like
> >
> > In: 2 Out: 4
> Okay, I'm not sure about all of them, but at least most of them either
> do require or may require further attention. I might have not noticed
> other ones that should be here, but we can fix it later, right?
OK, thanks. I'll get started on this. Tomorrow, probably. Not today. I'm
wiped out from working for a living.
Damn. This is going to affect all the translations we just got everybody to
update too. Should have thought of that sooner.
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