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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: kdelibs.po
From:       "Erik K. Pedersen" <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date:       2002-09-02 9:39:03
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Malcolm Hunter wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This one got me worried, but Stephan's fix of the semi-plural form is right:
> 
> msgid:
> _n: translators: not called for n == 1\n
> Do you really want to delete these %n items?
> 
> msgstr:
> translators: not called for n == 1\n    <- leave this line untranslated
> Do you really want to delete these %n items?
> 
> ie. Just treat it as a normal plural but don't translate for 1 item.

Do I understand this correctly. To make the plural system work there has 
to be the two lines in English. It does not actually matter whether or not 
we translate the first line since it will never be used.

Erik

> 
> Regards,
> Malcolm
> 
> P.S. Apologies if I was the only one confused by this. :¬)
> 

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