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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Different formulas for plurals in Qt and KDE
From:       Alexander Potashev <aspotashev () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-04-08 8:26:47
Message-ID: 27394739.zfCMIojx4Y () meth
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В письме от 8 апреля 2014 07:52:08 пользователь Yuri Chornoivan написал:
> Guessing from Trojita ans Kst translations, lconvert just skip the whole  
> translation and left the messages untranslated.
> 
> The error message is:
> 
> "Removed plural forms as the target language has less forms.
> If this sounds wrong, possibly the target language is not set or  
> recognized."
> 
> >  2. In the case there is a problem, what options may there be to  
> >
> > overcome it?
> 
> It thought that some addition of sed magic to lconvert wrapper may help.

Good morning Yuri,

Thanks for the clarification!

By having plans for changes in lconvert wrapper you make an assumption that 
one can clearly say what i18n system a .po file uses. But it can use both, 
kcoreaddons is an example.

Mixing i18n() in tr() in one .po sounds wrong conceptually, not only at the 
level of our problems with plurals.

Then, in the case we start using separate translation catalogs for KF's and 
Qt's i18n system-based messages, like kcoreaddons.po and kcoreaddons_qt.po, we 
can also modify scripty in the way that it forces different plural formulas on 
different files - say, 3-form plurals for files with "_qt.po" in the filename 
and 4-form plurals for the others.

However, if such a sed-like tool you mentioned will be necessary, I volunteer 
to write a C program doing manipulations with plurals using the official 
libgettextpo library. It would be faster, more stable and easier to write than 
sed, if you meant that standard tool literally. The also was a Pology sieve 
written by Chusslove, but it's too slow for daily use.

-- 
Alexander Potashev

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