Bug 106151 – Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda

Bug 106151 - Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda

Summary:	Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

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Product:	Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	beta2
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Blocks:	106150
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Reported:	2003-10-03 06:38 EDT by Christian Rose
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:58 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-10-03 14:39:01 EDT
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Description Christian Rose 2003-10-03 06:38:24 EDT

#: ../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 14:39:01 EDT

python doesn't currently have an ngettext implementation.

Comment 2 Christian Rose 2003-10-15 18:47:42 EDT

This also applies to:

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

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