Re: lang_pl.h and boot-floppies
On 23 Jul 1998 piotr.pogorzelski@ippt.gov.pl wrote:
>
> Maybe I've supplied wrong exaple. But sometimes two %s in a string
> may cause truble, because words order in polish and english differ.
The author of lftp (a ftp client) use a fuction (plural, if I remember
well) that on a local rule basis defined in the message catalog file,
choose the right occurence for the message. He is a Russian and Russian
(as well as the other "similar" languages) have a real complex rule for
decide if a word should in singular or plural form
i.e. the messages are something like
"I have found %d file|files"
And the rules is something like:
=1|0 >1
I.e.: if the argumenent is equal to 1 then use the first occurence ("I
have found 1 file"), otherwise (if the argument is 0 or greater than 1)
use the other.
The occurence should be more than two.
I translated the message catalog in italian, and I think this is a very
elegant way to threat with this case.
Sorry, for my poor English
Giovanni
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