Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: language-pack-kde-lt-base
KDE Lithuanian translation has 4 plural forms instead of the 3 usually
used when localizing OSS projects. So the plural header of each *.po
file looks like this:
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; plural=(n==1 ? 0 : n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 1 : n"
"%10>=2 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 2 : 3);\n"
But the actual plural forms are cut to three, leaving out the fourth
form:
msgid "1 action"
msgid_plural "%1 actions"
msgstr[0] "1 veiksmas"
msgstr[1] "%1 veiksmas"
msgstr[2] "%1 veiksmai"
The missing string is:
msgstr[3] "%1 veiksmų"
This example is taken form
/usr/share/locale-langpack/lt/LC_MESSAGES/krunner.mo
file of the package version
language-pack-kde-lt-base-11.04+20110421
but the problem is common to all translations in that package (of course
it goes back to source package).
I think this is a regression from the times of Lucid, it was solved
then, and the problem was, that Launchpad translation system assumed a
language in Launchpad has the same number of plural forms for all
packages/projects.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
$ apt-cache policy language-pack-kde-lt-base
language-pack-kde-lt-base:
Įdiegta: 1:11.04+20110421
Kandidatas: 1:11.04+20110421
Versijų lentelė:
*** 1:11.04+20110421 0
50 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
While the expected behaviour is for the interface to show correct
strings of plural forms, the actual behaviour is that the fourth form is
substituted by the first, thus, for example, in the countdown before
shutdown we get:
Atsijungiama po 1 sekundės. (should be 30 sekundžių).
Atsijungiama po 29 sekundžių (correct)
..... (correct)
Atsijungiama po 21 sekundės (correct)
Atsijungiama po 1 sekundės (should be 20 sekundžių)
.... (incorrect)
Atsijungiama po 9 sekundžių (correct)
.... (correct)
Atsijungiama po 1 sekundės (correct)
** Affects: language-pack-kde-lt-base (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
The fourth plural form is missing from Lithuanian localizations
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