Estonian (et) translation of newton in Newton HEAD (development)

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:38 -0300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> On 16 Aug, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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> > OK, we need to know the plural form structure for Estonian. How many
> > plural forms are there in that language? You need to find a few .po
> > files in Estonian, and look for the Plural-Forms line. They need to be
> > files that actually have plural forms, or the result can be misleading.
> > In general it looks like:
> >
> > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
> >
> > If you can't find any that look different to that, then we should use  
> > that.
> > ...
> 
> According to the gettext manual  
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/ 
> gettext_150.html>, Estonian is indeed
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;".
> 
> Carlos, why aren't all the plural forms given in the gettext manual  
> already incorporated into Rosetta? That would save a lot of time for  
> both you (one lot of data entry instead of dozens) and the translators  
> of those languages (not having to go research the plural forms  
> themselves and then wait for you).
> 

We did that already, seems like they updated the manual or we did a
mistake... but first thing we did when we started with Rosetta was to
add the plural forms from gettext's manual.

Cheers.

P.S.: I will review it again to add the missing entries.

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> Matthew Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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Carlos Perelló Marín
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