On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Nikolai Prokoschenko wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:04:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > -- assume that ${PACKAGE_COUNT} falls into the largest plural category > > the language has, because I don't know of a language where this > > wouldn't be the case given the number of packages in Debian > Not quite. For example, in the russian language, the form is based on the > last digit, that means that 12341 is singular and 12345 is plural. So it > IS a problem for many. Ah, interesting. I'd never heard of this. :) So you're right, it would be a problem. > Have I understood you right, that debian-installer is not able to support > ngettext, or is it usable, but not practical? I assumed that it would be too complex to try to use ngettext from debconf-based shell scripts, because I don't think there's any supporting code for this. But maybe support from the shell isn't needed -- I'm not sure if Joey's comments are addressed at this particular msgid, or at something else? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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