comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-07-26 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Hello, As I have said in at a previous time, I have started working on adding comments in the dpkg code, in order to add automatic comments to the translatable strings. Unfortunately, I was caught in other issues with some translation sychronizations, and have halted a little the work. Also, the

Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-07-26 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
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

Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-07-26 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On 2005-07-26T17:30:00+0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't there a feature for handling this problem in GNU > Gettext? printf(ngettext("%d file copied", "%d files copied", i), i); And this ngettext makes its magic so this works in every language (i.e. there is just right amount of different pl

Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-07-26 Thread Eddy Petrisor
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 l

Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages

2005-07-26 Thread Jacob Sparre Andersen
Eddy Petrisor wrote: > 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? Wouldn't printf(ngettext("unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled