On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:55:18PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > Frank F?rst wrote on Tue Mar 26, 2002 um 04:47:53PM: > > > >> Die basedeb-Dateien werden von dem %sn Diskettenlaufwerk kopiert.\n > > >> Bitte legen Sie die Base-Diskette %d ein. > > > > > > Ugh. Should we have totally different messages for the `first' > > > and `second' cases? > > > > No. Just assign "eins", "zwei",... to %d - or "Nummer eins", "Nummer > > zwei" if you like. > > The problem is - this requires new code, german specific code and cannot > be sovled with with gettext only. Who cares abou this? Okay, our gramar > requires to write single-worded numbers in letters, but why not even use > "Diskette Nr. %d"? There are instances in which this really isn't appropriate, e.g.: Please place the %s in the %s floppy drive. There is already an *old* bug report for this construction causing translation problems[1]. We should fix it The Right Way (TM). Matt 1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=29277
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