Re: [poedit-users] plural functions other than ngettext()

Vaclav Slavik <[email protected]> Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.editors.poedit.user
Message-ID <1211058781.29115.39.camel@localhost>
Hi,

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:01 +0200, Ruben Arslan wrote:
> Vaclav said:
> > xgettext must be told that a keyword is plural, so you must either
> > specify keywordspec as per xgettext documentation in place of the
> > keyword in poedit's configuration dialog or wait for a fixed version
> > of poedit. If __ngettext uses same arguments as C ngettext()
> > function, then it should be enough to use "__ngettext:1,2" instead of
> > "__ngettext" as the keyword (see xgettext documentation for
> > explanation of what this means).
> 
> I'm not familiar with command line apps at all and I was only able to  
> grasp the gettext concept with PoEdit's help, so I wanted to humbly  
> ask you to implement this feature 

There is no feature to implement -- you just have to add your
(nonstandard, AFAIK) _n() function to keywords list in Catalogs ->
Settings -> Keywords, using the correct plural-form syntax.

> PS.: Is there an online manual for PoEdit? 

Not yet, but I plan to move it into a wiki...

> I had to gather  
> information from various sources via Google when I had a (admittedly  
> stupid) issue with the path specification and the help inside the Mac  
> OS X version does not seem to work..?

Something's wrong with its packaging script :-( In the meantime, the
manual is included in sources tarball:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/poedit/poedit-1.4.1.tar.gz
Also, here:
http://fisheye3.cenqua.com/browse/~raw,r=1175/poedit/trunk/docs/en/index.html

Regards,
Vaclav

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