Bug 106151 - Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda
Summary: Please use ngettext for handling plurals in anaconda
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: beta2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutori...
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Blocks: 106150
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-03 10:38 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-03 18:39:01 UTC
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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"
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