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Bug 106151

Summary: Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta Reporter: Christian Rose <menthos>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#plurals
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Description Christian Rose 2003-10-03 10:38:24 UTC 
#: ../iw/progress_gui.py:43
msgid " Byte"

#: ../iw/progress_gui.py:45
msgid " Bytes"


As mentioned in
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#plurals,
this 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);

Something similar should work in Python too.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-10-03 18:39:01 UTC 
python doesn't currently have an ngettext implementation.
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2003-10-15 22:47:42 UTC 
This also applies to:

#: ../iw/progress_gui.py:167
#, python-format
msgid "Remaining time: %s minutes"