[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plural forms support

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:55:19PM +0100, mateusz stefek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote a patch which helps handling plural forms in translations.
> 
> The attached patch is only declaration of macro:
> 
> #define PL_(String1,String2,n) ngettext(String1,String2,n)
> 
> Wchich should be used like:
> 
> PL_("change in: %d turn", "change in: %d turns", count_change_turns)
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     untranslated singular  untranslated plural    counter
> 
> when making freeciv.pot xgettext uses argument: --keyword=PL_
> Only singular form from PL_ is put into freeciv.pot and it's ok.
> 
> You have to run autoconf and ./configure before compiling new code.
> 
> The macro PL_() is currently never used.
> If you think PL_() system is good I'll go through the source and replace 
> every:
> n > 1 ? _("plural") : _("singular")
> with
> PL_("plural", "singular", n)

I never have though about this before. Sound ok. About how many
possible instance of PL_ are we speaking about? And why is only the
singular form put into the pot file?

        Raimar

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