Comment 6 for bug 61514
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 61514] Re: Time remaining display should be less granular | #6 |
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:52:17AM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> It's not that simple; many languages have more forms than just singular
> and plural. For example, Russian and some similar languages have one
> form for numbers ending in 1 but not ending in 11, a second form for
> numbers ending in 2-4 but not in 12-14, and a third form for everything
> else. Lithuanian has a special case for numbers ending in 12-19. Czech
> and Slovak have one plural that's used for 2-4, and another for
> everything else - and so on. See "Plural forms" in the gettext
> documentation for more details.
>
> debconf has never implemented this, so where possible I prefer to try to
> avoid relying on substituting numbers into debconf messages in a way
> that requires plural nouns.
Can we translate these messages without using debconf?
How about using SI unit notation? "about <n> min remaining" or "time
remaining: about <n> min"
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- mdz