I wussed out and just avoided displaying a time at all until there's
less than a minute to go (because it occurred to me that the case where
there's a little bit more than a minute to go is awkward even in
English). Perhaps we can revisit this later, when debconf has better
translation facilities.
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This is of low importance, but should be very quick to implement and I
would like to see it for edgy if possible.
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My chief concern here is that debconf can't do plural form translations,
so translations of about N minutes remaining are bound to be poor in
many languages. Can we come up with some rewording to avoid that
problem? MM:SS was ideal because it dodged the issue entirely.
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I thought I addressed that in my original report, by using a different
string for the singular case
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It's not that simple; many languages have more forms than just singular
and plural. For example, Russian and some similar languages have one
form for numbers ending in 1 but not ending in 11, a second form for
numbers ending in 2-4 but not in 12-14, and a third form for everything
else. Lithuanian
(I'm willing to do something suboptimal quickly if we promise to come up
with something better before the string freeze a week after the beta,
otherwise translators for lots of languages are going to come and hunt
me down.)
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:52:17AM -, Colin Watson wrote:
It's not that simple; many languages have more forms than just singular
and plural. For example, Russian and some similar languages have one
form for numbers ending in 1 but not ending in 11, a second form for
numbers ending in 2-4
I could instantiate an entire new translation scheme for one string, but
I'd rather not if possible :-)
Something like About n min remaining doesn't sound too bad to me,
though. Thanks for that suggestion.
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