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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: plural
From:       "Erik K. Pedersen" <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date:       2003-05-01 7:45:04
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Onsdag den 30. april 2003 22:35 skrev Michal Rudolf:
> Erik K. Pedersen, śro, 30 kwietnia 2003 20:11:
> >Onsdag den 30. april 2003 19:14 skrev Michal Rudolf:
> >> And for some messages this form is not necessary (some numbers cannot be
> >> 0). If we don't want "0 replacements done", it should be easy to add
> >> appropriate string in sources. That won't break current plural messages
> >> and allow us to add additional strings only if necessary.
> >
> >Does not matter. This only means %n never takes the value 0. So what?
>
> It means we will never have "0 replacements done" - and that is the string
> we want to avoid.

You were talking about cases where 0 is not used.

> > I agree it would be a big effort in English, but in other languages it
> > would be essentially trivial as far as I can tell.
>
> Why it would be trivial? If we really want "No replacements done" for %n=0,
> it would mean that we need to add another string for %n=0 for each plural
> message for every language. We will have 3 forms for English, 4 for Polish
> etc.

It would be trivial because I checked how many there were in the kde 
pot-files, and I could do it in an hour or so.

It is a decision that can be made one language at a time. All I would need for 
Danish is a ThreeForm with the 3 plurals 0,1, and many.

It is much worse for English because there you have to go into the source code 
of the programs.

Erik

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