As mentioned in http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#plurals, the common way of handling plurals is broken for many locales. A way to solve this is by using ngettext instead, as mentioned in that document. A simple code example of code using ngettext: g_printf (ngettext ("Found %d file.", "Found %d files.", nbr_of_files), nbr_of_files); We should make all of the Red Hat tools use this when needed.
This is made difficult by the fact that there isn't an ngettext implementation in python 2.2.
FWIW, there is one in python 2.3, although that doesn't help much if all RH tools are using python 2.2.
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