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Bug 512203 - “Preparing to...” strings should use ngettext
“Preparing to...” strings should use ngettext
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Internationalization (i18n)
2.21.x
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-26 10:44 UTC by Vasiliy Faronov
Modified: 2008-01-28 10:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
Proposed patch to include ngettext support (1.43 KB, patch)
2008-01-26 12:52 UTC, Vasiliy Faronov 		none Details | Review

Description Vasiliy Faronov 2008-01-26 10:44:05 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
There are four strings in libnautilus-private/nautilus-file-operations.c, on lines 2007 to 2019, like the following:

    Preparing to copy %'d files (%S)

Without ngettext, such strings cannot be adequately translated to many languages. Please alter them to use ngettext.

Steps to reproduce:



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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-26 12:16:03 UTC 
Hi, please can you post this issue also on the nautilus mailing list to speed up the fix? (nautilus-list@gnome.org, it requires subscription for posting). Also, if you can do that, attach a patch to solve the bug.
Thanks.
Comment 2 Vasiliy Faronov 2008-01-26 12:52:32 UTC 
Created attachment 103775 [details] [review]
Proposed patch to include ngettext support

I am not very proficient in creating patches, so this should be reviewed before committing.
Comment 3 Vasiliy Faronov 2008-01-26 13:05:46 UTC 
Unfortunately I cannot send mail to the mailing list, likely due to problems with my ISP.
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-27 14:04:30 UTC 
I sent a mail on your behalf to the Nautilus mailing list and CC-d you.
Comment 5 Vasiliy Faronov 2008-01-27 14:21:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> I sent a mail on your behalf to the Nautilus mailing list and CC-d you.

Thank you.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2008-01-27 14:29:24 UTC 
note that committing this requires to announce the string change to gnome-i18n@.
for future reference, feel free to add the keyword "L10N" for l10n issues, thanks.
Comment 7 Alexander Larsson 2008-01-28 10:39:07 UTC 
Commied this, thanks.