On 7/26/05, Jacob Sparre Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > > 2) in some languages forms like "3 installed packages", "1 > > installed package" and "6 installed packages" need three > > different forms for the word "installed". Thus, the string > > "unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled" is ambiguous (in > > this case might not be the case - I am not a speaker of > > such a language, so I don't know for sure if exactly this > > situation applies); anyway, such phrasings sould be > > avoided. As a note, this string is also hard to translate > > in Romanian for phrasing reasons, also. (If you are > > wondering about the languages with multpile plural forms, > > I know for sure this is the case for Serbian.) > > Isn't there a feature for handling this problem in GNU > Gettext? >
The support is there, but the original phrasing makes the feature useless; As I said:> > > > > > Thus, the string > > "unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled" is ambiguous (in how many are uninstalled? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
