Re: Plural forms in translations

[Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>]

Hi,

El vie, 07-03-2008 a las 17:42 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee escribió:
> Claude Paroz wrote:
> > Le vendredi 07 mars 2008 à 16:14 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit :
> >   
> >> Claude Paroz wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Le vendredi 07 mars 2008 à 15:15 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee a écrit :
> >>>   
> >>>       
> [snip]
> >>
> >> In any case, for languages which do not have a plural form, the problem 
> >> might still persist in case the editor settings are set to "not require 
> >> the plural forms". I get the following screen with only one placeholder 
> >> for the msgstr string. [1]
> >>     
> >
> > Language with no plural form should use the string "Plural-Forms:
> > nplurals=1; plural=0;" (1) and not tweak the po editor.
> > Is it the case with your language?
> >   
> 
> Yes. But using the "nplurals=1; plural=0;" string still gives the 
> following error
> 
> $ msgfmt -vc -o /dev/null file-roller.HEAD.bn_IN.po
> bn_IN.po:11: nplurals = 1...
> bn_IN.po:124: ...but some messages have 2 plural forms
> msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
> 259 translated messages.
> 
> 
> String in question reads as follows:
> 
> #. secondary text
> #: ../data/glade/update.glade.h:2 ../src/dlg-update.c:181
> #, c-format
> msgid ""
> "The file has been modified with an external application. If you don't 
> update "
> "the version in the archive, all of your changes will be lost."
> msgid_plural ""
> "There are %d files that have been modified with an external 
> application. If "
> "you don't update the files in the archive, all of your changes will be 
> lost."
> msgstr[0] ""
> "ফাইলটি কোনো পৃথক অ্যাপ্লিকেশন সহযোগে পরিবর্তন করা হয়েছে। বর্তমান আর্কাইভের মধ্যে "
> "উপস্থিত ফাইলের সংস্করণ আপডেট না করা হলে, আপনার করা সব পরিবর্তন বর্জন করা হবে।"
> msgstr[1] ""
> 
> 
> Are the msgstr[1] strings required to be manually removed or the 
> msgstr[0] content copied in for them?


Yeah, please, remove msgstr[1] if your language doesn't have plural
forms at all, you don't need it at all.

Cheers.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> regards
> Runa