On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Sergey Alyoshin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Dominique Pellé
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sergey Alyoshin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> This patch add ngettext() support to allow localization with plural
>>> form, e.g. in folded line count message.
>>
>> That's the wrong way of fixing this in my opinion:
>> - It assumes that plural is n != 1. Rules for what's plural or singular
>> are different in different languages.
>> In English, plural is for n != 1. In French plural is for n >= 2 for
>> example.
>> - It assumes that there are only 2 forms (plurals and singular), but
>> several languages have more than 2 plural forms (Polish has 3 for example).
>>
>> The right way to fix it would be to use the plural form feature of gettext.
>
> Actually it is ngettext() from libintl.
And this null_libintl_ngettext() is just a stub if libintl is not available:
+null_libintl_ngettext(const char *msgid, const char *msgid_plural,
+ unsigned long int n)
+{
+ if (n == 1)
+ return (char *)msgid;
+ else
+ return (char *)msgid_plur;
+}
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