Bug 697199 – plural form in strings

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Bug 697199 - plural form in strings


Summary:	plural form in strings


Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	gnome-subtitles
Classification:	Other
Component:	general
Version:	latest
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Maintainers of GNOME subtitles
QA Contact:	Maintainers of GNOME subtitles

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Reported:	2013-04-03 17:00 UTC by Dušan
Modified:	2013-04-04 09:49 UTC

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Description Dušan 2013-04-03 17:00:39 UTC

Hi.
I have problem with proper translating because of missing plular forms for these strings.
in first string i am not able to translate word "every" to right form, because of denclesion based on represented number(1,2,0) - many languages should have problems with this too.
Second string is evident.
Both strings interlocks to itself.


#: ../src/Glade/PreferencesDialog.glade.h:13
msgid "Create a _backup copy of files every"



#: ../src/Glade/PreferencesDialog.glade.h:14
msgid "minutes"

Comment 1 André Klapper 2013-04-04 09:39:29 UTC

This cannot be fixed, as the strings cannot be dynamically updated depending on what's chosen in the spinner dialog by the user. Theoretically you could try to rephrase the sentence.

Comment 2 Pedro Castro 2013-04-04 09:49:11 UTC

As a side note, this was implemented to be similar to gedit, and it appears they also haven't changed it there. Please see:

http://thecodecentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Screenshot-gedit-Preferences-1.png

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit/tree/po/en_GB.po#n1574