On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:56:46 +0300, ext Marius Vollmer wrote: > In general, we should try to reduce the need for context and > complicated translations. The classical example might: > > Searched in %d files and %d directories. > > You will never be able to translate this nicely for all languages > because of the wierd way they handle plurals, etc, and because of the > combinatorial explosion. A better way is: > > Number of files searched: %d > Number of directories searched: %d
That's what ngettext is for... regards, guillem _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers