Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

fre 2003-02-21 klockan 12.55 skrev Stanislav Visnovsky:
> > Btw, does KDE use ngettext and if so, for how long? I must admit I don't
> > know since I've never translated KDE software. I only know ngettext from
> > translations in the Translation Project.
> 
> KDE uses its own handling of plural forms, but the difference is 
> about the PO-file format, internals of kdelibs etc. The principle is the 
> very same one.
> 
> It started when GNU gettext got the support for plural 
> forms. That was the moment, when the fork happened and KDE got the support 
> for plural forms. No sure if it was 2.2 or 3.0 or something in between.

I'm curious, why did KDE decide to fork?


> Since then, we fix these problems for every release :-( Even I've missed 
> some plural forms when coding. But translators caught it veery fast ;-)

:-)
It will sure take some time to get this into people's minds, both for
translators and developers.


Christian