Re: Plural forms in translations

[Runa Bhattacharjee <runabh gmail com>]

Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El vie, 07-03-2008 a las 18:38 +0530, Runa Bhattacharjee escribió:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> >     
>
> [...]
>
>   
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > >   
> > >
> > >       
> > What about strings with variables (to indicate the plural number) 
> > exclusively in the plural version of the string? Deleting these strings 
> > would do away with messages that might be required in certain circumstances.
> >
> > e.g
> >
> > msgid "One file has been modified"
> > msgid_plural "%d files have been modified"
> >
> > The earlier example from the file-roller package is of similar nature.
> >     
>
> Well, given that the language doesn't have plural form, msgstr[0] would
> have msgstr[0] "something in your language %d" with the variable in its
> correct place in the sentence, but I hope you understand it. Not having
> plural forms just means that is the same for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc..
> items.
>
>   
> > Retaining, these strings with the "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; 
> > plural=0;\n"  in the header causes msgfmt errors too.
> >     
>
> You only need to leave msgid, msgid_plural and msgstr[0], msgstr[0] can
> use the format string even if msgid doesn't use it.
>
>
>   
Thanks Carlos. An irc conversation with Claude helped sort it out as well.

regards
Runa


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