[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Plural forms support

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 06:18:33AM +0100, mateusz stefek wrote:
> >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
> In English-compatible languages:
> 
> 1 turn
> 2 turns
> 3 turns
> ...
> 
> In my language and many slavonic languages it is something like that:
> 
> 1 tura
> 2 tury
> 3 tury
> 4 tury
> 5 tur
> 6 tur
> ...
> 21 tur
> 22 tury
> 23 tury
> 24 tury
> 25 tur

Ahh I see.

> To select correct plural form we should use ngettext function.
> Entry in .po file should look like:
> 
> msgid "%d turn"
> msgid_plural "%d turns"
> msgstr[0] "%d tura"
> msgstr[1] "%d tury"
> msgstr[2] "%d tur"
> 
> Do you agree?

Why can we use the ngettext function directly?

        Raimar

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