Bug 146839 - Need to fix pluralization in code
Summary: Need to fix pluralization in code
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: i18n
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike McCune
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Blocks: rhnMilestone1 rhn400i18n
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Reported: 2005-02-01 23:39 UTC by Mike McCune
Modified: 2007-10-24 02:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-03-14 21:47:50 UTC
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Description Mike McCune 2005-02-01 23:39:49 UTC
> Another thing, I don't know to what degree there is an issue with
> singular and plural, I am merely asking, because I found an entry 's' to
> be translated. I've found a few such entries in the perl code, and all
> these referred to the 's' to be appended to a singular word, in order to
> create its plural. This does only apply to english and singular/plural
> needs to be treated as two different words in translations, if used. If
> there is a way to use a form that applies to both cases, good, if there
> needs to be made a distinction between singular and plural, these must
> be separate entries, one for the singular form, and one for the
plural form.


Yeah, you raise an excellent point.  We need to fix this.  Can't have
the code pluralize a word based on a suffix.  Instead it has to lookup
two entire different trans-units.  Thanks for catching this.

Comment 1 Mike McCune 2005-03-14 21:47:29 UTC
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