GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 320461
plural forms in gimppropwidgets.c
Last modified: 2005-11-02 14:45:57 UTC
Please describe the problem: libgimpwidgets/gimppropwidgets.c:1868 contains "This text input field is limited to %d characters." phrase which be translatable with plural forms. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
This string can never be called with a small number of characters. It doesn't make sense to use a plural form here. I've added a translator comment to indicate this fact. Closing as NOTABUG.
Sven, e.g. 1000000001 cannot be considered as a small number, but this is a subject to plural forms as well just because it has "1" in the end :)
So you suggest that we use ngettext() here, introducing a completely redundant string for translation?
Why redundant? :) English: 21 character 22 characters 27 characters Russian 21 simvol 22 simvola 27 simvolov What exactly am I missing? :)
It's "21 characters" in english. The singular will be a redundant string but there doesn't seem to be a way to avoid that. So we will be doing that change then.
Fixed in CVS: 2005-11-02 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> * libgimp/gimpprocbrowserdialog.c * libgimpwidgets/gimppropwidgets.c * plug-ins/uri/uri-backend-wget.c: use dngettext() for plural forms. Fixes bug #320460, bug #320461 and bug #320462.