Re: Plurals and ngettext

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnovsky nenya ms mff cuni cz>]

On 21 Feb 2003, Christian Rose wrote:

> > 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?

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=98623103801458&w=2 and possibly 
others :-)

Because they do not like an interpreter for the plural form expression and
that the expression needs to be specified in each PO file. So simply, the
expression is hardwired in kdelibs (there is about 10 different algorithms
so for). But I can be wrong, it's a long time ago :-))

Also, the PO file is backward compatible.

Stanislav