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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 07:38:25PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have quite a few strings that are pluralized with "(s)". IMO, that
> looks ugly.
> 
> A few of them can be resolved by using
> 
>     wxPLURAL( "%d item", "%d items", num )
> 
> to get the appropriate string. In the C locale, this resolves to
> 
>     ( ( num == 1 ) ? "%d item" : "%d items" )
> 
> while other languages can specify the formula to select the appropriate
> plural form in the .po file[1].
> 
> It's less obvious what would be correct for the GUI strings (mostly
> menus and tooltips) where the actual number of items is not known when
> the string is needed. Any opinions on that?
> 
>    Simon
> 
> [1]
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Translating-plural-forms.html#Translating-plural-forms

I think this is far more professional.
Great catch Simon & thanks also for having updated the strings updater script!

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