Re: [Inkscape-devel] Small translation patch to commit.

On Feb 13, 2008 3:19 PM, Luca Bruno wrote:

here num is never less than 2. So why this patch?

Also:

• ngettext("Area filled, path with <b>%d</b> node created and unioned with selection."

is really possible to (union-)fill an area with a path consisting of only one node? (I'm not sure, so I'm asking)

If number of plural forms was always equal to 2, we would never need ngettext. Luckily variety of langauges helps developers keep their mind trained, thus not degrading back to apes :)

Just a small illustration for "%d node(s)" in Russian (transliterated). Watch how word endings change:

1 uzel 2 uzla 7 uzlov

AND

21 uzel 31 uzel 121 uzel 12131331 uzel

etc.

See, you still need that plural from whenever you have a number that ends with 1.

Fun, isn't it? :-)

Alexandre