Re: Suspicious Stats in GNOME 3.18 Release Notes

[Danylo Korostil <ted korostiled gmail com>]

Right, I meant we missed plurals support in Mallard. I didn't know how
Mallard works though.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:
> 2015-09-21 23:16 GMT+02:00 Danylo Korostil <ted korostiled gmail com>:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com> wrote:
> > > I can see why you would like that. Unfortunately, it would be harmful
> > > in many languages - "2 commits" and "5 commits" require different
> > > translations in Polish, among others.
> > Why not? In that case you must translate it once for all further
> > releases, like the list of languages.I'm for it despite my language
> > has three plurals forms.
>
> It would result in ungrammatical sentences. I find that unacceptable.
> So unless someone implements plurals support for variables in Mallard,
> we have to use hard-coded numbers.
>
> Best regards,
>
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> Piotr Drąg
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