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[Miroslav Remák <miroslavr256@xxxxxxxxx>]

I fully agree with GunChleoc regarding Klaus' post. In Slovak we would say "twenty-five whole (ones) (and) six tenths of a second" and write "25,6 sekundy", where "sekundy" is the genitive case form of the word second. That's why a special plural form is needed.

As for the merge request, I will sum up my stance:
 - Ngettext should not accept a float parameter. Scripters are falsely led to believe that it will be handled correctly for every language.
 - To fix existing usages, instead of ngettext we should use a simple gettext (_) call with a symbol/abbreviation for the unit, or not use formatting placeholders at all, as long as the number is static. I am leaning towards the first option because it is easier to maintain.

> Let's say the value is currently 25.5 - then you would need to translate "%d
> seconds" with the floating point translation in Slovak. If the value changes
> to 25, you would need to change your translation - but how would you know? How
> would a programmer who is not aware of the issue know to give you a hint?

I am aware of that. This is the issue we're trying to solve/work around here. I thought you were replying to my previous post...
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