[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11134) Small fixes in i18n and help

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11134 >

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:51:41PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> > -                "%s territory (%d turn ceasefire)",
> > +                "%s territory (%d turns ceasefire)",
> 
> This change is wrong.  "5 turn ceasefire" is correct in English.

Oh.

> However I can see that with the way translations are done this makes the 
> PL_() useless.  So is the PL_() wrong?

No, I think it's OK. It improves the german translation at least.

> Would some languages have 
> different forms?

That's possible of course.

> In that case the only way to fix this is to add an 
> English translation!  Or I suppose PL_() could be extended to support 
> the Q_() behavior.

Christian

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