Re: PluralForm for arabic

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

Thank you very much Hisham .. 

	What you are saying correct .. but we already set the PluralForm in the 
kdelibs to NoPlural as you see .. and we did all the translation upon it .. 
in any regards the cases where the '_n' is present is limited .. there is 8 
in kdelibs.po , 8 in kmail.po , 1 in kmailcvt.po, 1 in kcmlinuz.po . and 
that's it ... So I will make sure to fix them all before we make the commit 
to the KDE BETA2 .. we don't need to involve all the translators in the 
complexities with the plural forms ..

Thank you Again Waseem for noting it .. and feel releafed as the use of it is 
very limited, and with the currect state of it it is OK, while changing it 
without changing all the PO files that have messages that use the plural form 
would break up things .. so let's leave it now ...

Later...



On Friday 11 January 2002 17:15, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> Some changes must be made to kdelibs.po and to every translation that
> begin with "_n:.." to support
> PluralForm for arabic.
>
> For kdelibs.po, the change is for the translation:
> "_: Dear translator, please do not translate this string in any form, but "
> "pick the _ right_ value out of NoPlural/TwoForms/French.... If not sure
> what "
> "to do mail thd at kde dot org and coolo at kde dot org, they will tell you. Better
> leave "
> "that out if unsure, the programs will crash!!\n"
> "Definition of PluralForm - to be set by the translator of kdelibs.po"
>
> I've contacted Stephan Kulow (coolo at kde dot org) and hi told me that
> we should put the translation:
> OneTwoRest
>
> Now for the translations, you should preceed like this:
> msgid ""
> "_n: %n message, %1.\n"
> "%n messages, %1."
> msgstr ""
> "translation for 1 message %1 \n"
> "translation for 2 messages %1 \n"
> "translation for n>=3 messages %1"
>
> ie:
> مفرد
> مثنى
> جمع
>
> Regards,
> Hicham Amaoui
>
>
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> On Friday, 11. January 2002 15:08, you wrote:
> >Hi Stephan,
> >I'm a member of the arabic translation team. I don't know what to put for
> >the PluralForm for the arabic language.
> >
> >There's 3 "state"  for arabic. Let me explain it for the word apple:
> >one apple: tofaha 1 ( the number is optional)
> >two apples: tofahatyn 2 (the number is optional)
> >n (n>=3) apples: n tofahat (the number is mandatory)
> >
> >In this case what to put in kdelibs.po for arabic?
>
> Put in there OneTwoRest - it's the new name for Gailege
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>
>
>
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