On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:52:17AM -0000, 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 but not in 12-14, and a third form for everything > else. Lithuanian has a special case for numbers ending in 12-19. Czech > and Slovak have one plural that's used for 2-4, and another for > everything else - and so on. See "Plural forms" in the gettext > documentation for more details. > > debconf has never implemented this, so where possible I prefer to try to > avoid relying on substituting numbers into debconf messages in a way > that requires plural nouns.
Can we translate these messages without using debconf? How about using SI unit notation? "about <n> min remaining" or "time remaining: about <n> min" -- - mdz -- Time remaining display should be less granular https://launchpad.net/bugs/61514 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
