Bug 460728 - ngettext use for recursive plurals
Summary: ngettext use for recursive plurals
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Chris Lumens
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-30 12:39 UTC by Miloš Komarčević
Modified: 2008-09-08 18:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-04 17:02:44 UTC
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Description Miloš Komarčević 2008-08-30 12:39:56 UTC 
Kudos for using ngettext, but the one string in anaconda is a bit of a complicated case, as it has two numbers in it the translated sentence will depend on both in many languages [1].

Would it be possible to beak up the string into two so ngettext can be used for each number separately? Something like:

  msgid_plural "%d optional packages"

  #. TRANSLATORS: %s is substituted by the string above
  msgid_plural "%d of %s selected"


[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-August/msg00059.html
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-09-03 19:30:55 UTC 
What if we changed the string to be something along the lines of:

Optional packages selected: %d/%d

Then you don't even need to worry about the plural case, do you?
Comment 2 Miloš Komarčević 2008-09-04 12:06:55 UTC 
That could be an easy way out too. In that case "%d of %d" should work just as well.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2008-09-04 17:02:44 UTC 
Thanks for the tip, committed and pushed.  We should be rebuilding the .pot file sometime soon.
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