[Freeciv-Dev] Re: GNU gettext 0.10.38 and "Plural Forms"

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, egbert@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Gettext supports plural forms now.
> 
> I don't know if the programmers will support it, but it may be
> useful to add it's header line to the .po-files.
> 
> Because the format of the header line is different by numbers and
> kinds of plural forms, please read the chapter about them in the
> gettext info.
> 
> The header for languages using one singular and one plural (like
> German or English) is:
> 
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"

Here's a patch to do just that:

plurals.diff
Description: Text Data

I didn't add one for pt or pt_BR since the gettext manual doesn't
specify anything suitable; I just added a FIXME.

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