Some suggestions below. markus Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> A very well-known example of this situation is the menu "New" of Windows > Explorer (the program that is used to manipulate the file system under MS > Windows systems). I am not sure much can be done in this case: The New/Nuovo is at a different level from its sub-items, so there is only one for many. > Another example is when i18n engineers assign a single slot to an indicator > such as "updated", which may be applied to a variety of items on a list: > ... > (Not to say that, even in English, you cannot say "1 files"). This one is a well-known problem, and Java/ICU provide the MessageFormat and ChoiceFormat classes as solutions. See http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/formatMessages.html