[City] "%s grows to size %d." pluralisation

Jacob Nevins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've noticed that we've got a number of strings referring to city
population as "size %d" which don't have pluralisation marking, for
instance the subject, and
  " (Cities below size %d will not celebrate.)"
  "%s needs %s (being built) to grow beyond size %d."

Is it worth fixing this? -- is it making translation clumsy in some
languages?

In some of these cases there are two numbers mentioned in one string:

  /* TRANS: Plural in "%d population", not "size %d". */
  "* Can add on %d population to cities of no more than size %d.\n"

Since these are already plural in population (modulo bug #21528), the
string would have to be split into two somehow to pluralise "size %d" --
maybe "* %s to cities of no more than size %d.\n" where the first %s is
"Can add on %d population" -- but provided the strings are only used
once, the exact boundary doesn't matter, as translators can move it
according to the required agreement rules of their language, hopefully.

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