From kde-i18n-doc  Fri Aug 23 17:02:34 2002
From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre () nbi ! dk>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:02:34 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Plural form
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Malcolm Hunter wrote:

> I have "fixed" other instances of this by splitting the strings, ie.:
> 
> i18n("1 item\nAnother line", "%n items\nAnother line", items) into:
> i18n("1 item\n, "%n items\n", items) + i18n("Another line")
                           ^^
Isn't that line break misplaced?

I suspect that you wanted to write:

   i18n("1 item\n, "%n items", items) + i18n("\nAnother line")

There are two solutions:

 1) To use something else than "\n" to mark line breaks. It
    could for example be "<br>".

 2) Drop the forced line breaks from the strings.

In the long run, I think the real solution is to pass an
array of strings (or maybe simply two strings) to the plural
form version of "i18n()".

Jacob
-- 
"It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the
 tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved
 by a sufficiently large ego."