Re: Issues in translating GNOME to Irish

["Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>]

On 3/14/07, Sean Burke <leftmostcat gmail com> wrote:
...
>     The second problem involves the way that numbering works in Irish.
> In the singular, a noun will never have a number placed before it. Thus,
> "You will be automatically logged out in %d second" would translate
> without the %d. This seems like it might cause issues, though I'm not
> sure. Any feedback on this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Please file a bug report in bugzilla.gnome.org against the affected
software, telling the authors to please use ngettext()
(http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Plurals) for
messages containing numbers.


Christian