I have manually quote Roozbeh reply from the web, as my email was down for several days.
---quoted message--- Please note that in some languages one may need to use different part of speech (grammatical forms) to translate things only changing in one word. One cannot assume that this can always be done using a %s. Languages are different.
So, you should simply copy the translations and simply change the word each time, if your language translates these to the same thing only with the word changed.
roozbeh ---end quoted message--
I thought Gettext has solved this issue by using plural form string for the msgstr? And I personally don't think the issue is about the singular or plural form, because it not related to numbers or counts. The %s only address the special word used in the sentence, which is the name of the daemon, such as cyrus, smtpd, httpd, etc.
I don't think other language translate that daemon name to their own language and character sets, right?
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On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:07 +0800, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
I thought Gettext has solved this issue by using plural form string for the msgstr? And I personally don't think the issue is about the singular or plural form, because it not related to numbers or counts. The %s only address the special word used in the sentence, which is the name of the daemon, such as cyrus, smtpd, httpd, etc.
That's another problem that gettext's plural forms support solves. Read below.
I don't think other language translate that daemon name to their own language and character sets, right?
But they may add things before and after them based on the way they are pronounced, say. Like when you use "a" or "an" before an English word based on its pronounciation.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:40:07PM +0430, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
But they may add things before and after them based on the way they are pronounced, say. Like when you use "a" or "an" before an English word based on its pronounciation.
Or change the spelling of the word depending upon its form as languages like Welsh do..
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