Re: Short guide on Plural-Forms

2005-12-20 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 16/11/2005, at 2:17 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 15 November 2005 07:04, Christian Perrier wrote: And beware that even when a language does not use plural like Chinese (lucky people!), you have to use a Plural-Forms header in the files where at least one plural form is used: "Plural-For

Re: Short guide on Plural-Forms

2005-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 07:04, Christian Perrier wrote: > And beware that even when a language does not use plural like Chinese > (lucky people!), you have to use a Plural-Forms header in the files > where at least one plural form is used: > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n" Hmm. Is th

Re: Short guide on Plural-Forms

2005-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> The d-i i18n documentation [1] (by the way, translators should really read > it, even if you don't work for d-i) isn't really helpful either. So Hmmm, I intended to write something about P-F there but it seems that I left this undone: Plural Forms Foo which is a bit short actually..:-

Short guide on Plural-Forms

2005-11-14 Thread Ming Hua
Hi fellow translators, I never understood this Plural-Forms thing about gettext (mainly because we Chinese don't have any plural form whatsoever :-). But I still see such things in PO files, and I've never dare to touch them, fearing that I'll get the format wrong. The d-i i18n documentation [1]