[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:08:13PM +0300, Mohammed Hassan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:56 +0300, 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:
> 
> Or "Searched %d files and directories" ;-)

Provided that you use ngettext(3) instead of gettext(3).

Marius Gedminas
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