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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