[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PL_ macro

["mateusz stefek" <matusik_s@xxxxx>]

>On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:57:46PM +0100, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:06:02AM +0100, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > The expansion of the PL_ macro seems to be incorrect. Using
>> > >
>> > >  make <lang>.pox
>> > >
>> > > never reveals the plural parts of the texts. This leads to only
>singular
>> > > texts in the interface which looks rather odd.
>> > >
>> > > I'm using an unmodified CVS version (latest).
>> > >
>> > > Please look into this.
>> >
>> > From the first email about this topic:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:55:19PM +0100, mateusz stefek wrote:
>> > ...
>> > > Only singular form from PL_ is put into freeciv.pot and it's ok.
>> >
>>
>> So? What did he say?
>
>The above.
>
>> It's alright to have only singular forms?
>
>It looks so.

It thought that plular form is obvious, but now you are right.

>> > Searching a bit further is looks like gettext 0.10.40 supports an
>> > extended keyword syntax
>> > <http://www.cise.ufl.edu/depot/doc/gettext/gettext_4.html#SEC20> which
>> > may can be used to extract both singular and plural.
>> >
>>
>> I tried to use --keyword=PL_:1,2 but to no avail. Still singular only.
>
>Also tried it: same result.
>
>> I'm no gettext expert, just a translator. Any further help is highly
>> appreciated.
>
>Ask Mateusz. I looked at gpg, gnucash, slrn and gaim. While all of
>them used gettext none of them used ngettext. It looks like freeciv is
>leading edge in this aspect.

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mateusz