Comment 11 for bug 453269

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Leigh Willard (leigh) wrote : Re: [Bug 453269] Re: english language fix

That sounds good - it would be backwards compatable as well.

At least it would fix it for the majority of languages. The others...
well.... maybe they will have to submit a code fix themselves? :)

Thanks,
Leigh

Numérigraphe wrote:
> Maybe the 'dollar' parameter's type could be checked:
> - if it's a string us it as-is,
> - if its a list use the first for 1, the second for 2
> That won't fix it for polish, romanian and others - they appear to have more complex plural rules.
> GNU gettext has an interesting approach to this problem with "plural forms": http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Plural-forms.html
> Lionel.
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