Hi In bug #552419[1], I complained against the usage of plurals without ngettext. This is indeed a corner case, as the program does not expose the exact number, only differentiates between "one" and "more than one".
Now, a developer asked why is this a problem, and I couldn't tell exactly what's wrong with this - the wiki[2] is not giving any real world example, it's only my feeling that it's not correct. So basically, I'm asking for a new section added to the wiki page, which shows to developers, why is using plurals without ngettext a bad practice, even when the exact number of items is not shown. As I'm thinking on this, the following came in my mind: if we don't show the number, is it necessary to show different plural forms depending on the number? The user could then have a clue that this number is in the range of [...] or [...] - depending the used plural, but this is irrelevant, as the exact number of things is not shown. So perhaps it's not that stupid idea to use this programmatic construct? What are other teams with more than two plurals doing with strings that don't contain the number, only the singular/plural difference? Regards Gabor Kelemen [1]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552419 [2]: http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/DevGuidelines/Plurals _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n