Bug 450452 - PolicyKit-gnome doesn't support GNU plural forms.
Summary: PolicyKit-gnome doesn't support GNU plural forms.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PolicyKit-gnome
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-08 16:51 UTC by Leonid Kanter
Modified: 2009-09-21 22:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-04-16 01:54:09 UTC
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Description Leonid Kanter 2008-06-08 16:51:24 UTC 
Description of problem:

While trying to create Russian translation I found that it's impossible to
translate some messages correctly because only two plual forms supported but
there are 3 forms in Russian. It's bad idea to have multiple messages for plural
forms like "1 minute ago" and "%d minutes ago" because there are many languages
with more than 2 plural forms. It should look like

msgid "%d minute ago"
msgid_plural "%d minutes ago"

in .pot file with proper support in code.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

PolicyKit-gnome-0.8-4.fc9.i386
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-04-16 01:54:09 UTC 
This string is gone in PolicyKit 0.91, which we will be switching to soon.
I don't think we will fix this in 0.9.x, so I am closing this for now.
Should plurals reappear in PolicyKit translations, I'll make sure we use ngettext
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