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Bug 106197

Summary: Please use ngettext for handling plurals in redhat-config-soundcard
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta Reporter: Christian Rose <menthos>
Component: redhat-config-soundcardAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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URL: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html#plurals
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Description Christian Rose 2003-10-03 15:49:47 UTC 
#. There is only one card, so hide the tab and border
#: ../src/soundcard.py:143
msgid "The following audio device was detected."

#. There is more than one card, so show the primary device option menu
#: ../src/soundcard.py:149
msgid "The following audio devices were detected."


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 Brent Fox 2003-10-08 03:27:26 UTC 
I may be wrong, but I believe that ngettext was introduced in Python 2.3.  We
will be staying with Python 2.2 for Cambridge, so I'll defer this to a future
release.