Re: [HEAD PATCH] Use ngettext where appropriate
Fòram na Gàidhlig <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:06:55 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.internationalization |
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Sgr=ECobh Werner Koch na leanas 04/12/2015 aig 09:36: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 11:03, [email protected] said: > = >> Not applying an ngettext patch will be at the cost of all the Slavic >> languages and of Arabic, just to name a few examples. You should at the >> very least try to always use ngettext when marking up new strings for >> translation. > = > And for German as well. We already have way too many translatable > strings (2111 as of today) and using ngettext all over the place would > add a lot more of these strings, code complexity and new bugs. > = > The majority of users are anyway using a frontend to gpg and thus I > believe it is better to properly translate those GUIs. I agree that the frontends are more important. So yes, do make any change a as low a cost for everybody as possible :)