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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: RFC: Out with %n in KDE4
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2006-07-25 15:44:30
Message-ID: 200607251744.30923.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Sunday 23 July 2006 21:21, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> > [: Nicolas Goutte :]
> > Well, the translator has to tell where to place the count. So how do you
> > plan to do it without a placeholder?
>
> What is eg.:
>
> msgid "%n file in folder %1"
> msgid_plural "%n files in folder %1"
> msgstr[0] "%n datoteka u fascikli %1"
> msgstr[1] "%n datoteke u fascikli %1"
> msgstr[2] "%n datoteka u fascikli %1"
>
> would become:
>
> msgid "%1 file in folder %2"
> msgid_plural "%1 files in folder %2"
> msgstr[0] "%1 datoteka u fascikli %2"
> msgstr[1] "%1 datoteke u fascikli %2"
> msgstr[2] "%1 datoteka u fascikli %2"
>
> Am I missing something?

Then probably we are not meaning the same thing with "placeholder". For me %1 
is a placeholder too.

Anyway for now, we have no solution that works with full msgfmt --check and on 
the other permits translators to replace the placeholder by "one", "two" or 
something similar.

For using %1 as placeholder, be careful that in many messages you will not 
have %n currently in the msgid. Perhaps it is something that you need to 
write in the KDE4PORTING.html so that least new messages are done correctly.

Have a nice day!
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