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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Question about only plural i18n string
From:       Pino Toscano <toscano.pino () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2013-04-08 11:28:29
Message-ID: 201304081328.35019.toscano.pino () tiscali ! it
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Alle luned́ 8 aprile 2013, Martin Klapetek ha scritto:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net> 
wrote:
> > Yes. There are many languages with different plural forms for
> > "many" (e.g. Ukrainian) [1].
> 
> Thanks. Can you shed some more light on this? Since the string will
> always be plural (the singular form will never ever be displayed and
> as far as I'm concerned should not even exist),

You're assuming that "singular" = 1 item, which is true for English and 
other languages, but not all of them.

> I understand
> the case where there can be singular form. Is it that translators
> can produce more strings (for the Ukranian example - one for 2..4,
> one for 5..20) and the proper form will be selected thanks to i18np?

Yes.

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Pino Toscano

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