On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 07:38:25PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > we have quite a few strings that are pluralized with "(s)". IMO, that > looks ugly. > > A few of them can be resolved by using > > wxPLURAL( "%d item", "%d items", num ) > > to get the appropriate string. In the C locale, this resolves to > > ( ( num == 1 ) ? "%d item" : "%d items" ) > > while other languages can specify the formula to select the appropriate > plural form in the .po file[1]. > > It's less obvious what would be correct for the GUI strings (mostly > menus and tooltips) where the actual number of items is not known when > the string is needed. Any opinions on that? > > Simon > > [1] > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Translating-plural-forms.html#Translating-plural-forms
I think this is far more professional. Great catch Simon & thanks also for having updated the strings updater script! -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. ------------------------ GNU/Linux User #78271 FSFE fellow #364 ------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
