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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Strange/wrong plural forms in kcoreaddons5_qt
From:       Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl () huftis ! org>
Date:       2018-01-25 19:43:09
Message-ID: cab8413d-2dca-40cc-4a2c-e16374a49543 () huftis ! org
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Yuri Chornoivan skreiv 25. jan. 2018 20:21:
> Just a side note, I have absolutely the same problem with time displaying in
> RSIBreak widget in Ukrainian. Only the message "1 second" is displayed
> correctly (translated). Other messages are shown in English with "(s)" in each
> of them.

I have now tested KDE in Ukrainian, and here are my observations:

Ukrainian is really difficult to understand. :)

The translation system of the plural strings seem to work fine. 
Strangely, I couldn't get RSIBreak in Ukrainian (even though I have a 
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo file), but copying a large 
file to a slow disk showed the different minutes and second strings 
(година and хвилина etc.) changing in the file copying dialogue.

Before I tested Ukrainian, I thought the system wasn't working, as I had 
tested the German translation (a language I reckoned was ~100% 
translated) and observed several ‘Minute(n)' strings. But it turns out 
that also the German translators have translated both the singular and 
the plural version to a ‘maybe-singular-maybe-plural' string. That me 
feel better, as I was obviously not the only confused by the 
‘maybe-singular-maybe-plural' English source strings. :)

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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