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Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed [message #1688]

Sat, 20 April 2002 23:57

basse

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In English, plural forms are quite elegant. You just put an s at the end of the word and voil�. In other languages, the case is not that simple.

For example: the row that show how many members and how many guests are browsing the forum looks like this in Swedish.

Vi har 1 medlem(mar), 0 osynlig(a) medlem(mar) och 0 g�st(er) p� bes�k just nu.

This is not very elegant. Therefore I suggest that you write code that knows when to output the singular form and when to print the plural.

In that way, the example line would look like this:

Vi har 1 medlem, 0 osynliga medlemmar och 0 g�ster p� bes�k just nu.

Another time it may look like this:

Vi har 3 medlemmar, 1 osynlig medlem och 4 g�ster p� bes�k just nu.

What do you think?

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Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed [message #1689 is a reply to message #1688]

Sun, 21 April 2002 00:02

Ilia

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That is why everyone should use english Twisted Evil

*kidding*

I'll look into our code to see what would it take to make that work...

In the meanwhile, if you can give me a list of the pages that have such issues so that I know just how many pages I gotta deal with.

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Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed [message #1691 is a reply to message #1689]

Sun, 21 April 2002 00:15

basse

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prottoss wrote on Sun, 21 April 2002 3:02 AM

In the meanwhile, if you can give me a list of the pages that have such issues so that I know just how many pages I gotta deal with.

I can't find any other instances than the one I already mentioned - the list of how many members and guest the forum has. If I come up with more I'll post them here.

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Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed [message #1909 is a reply to message #1688]

Wed, 24 April 2002 17:40

basse

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Have you given this idea any thought? Would it be very hard to change the code in this manner?

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Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed [message #1910 is a reply to message #1909]

Wed, 24 April 2002 17:43

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djupsjob wrote on Wed, 24 April 2002 1:40 PM

Have you given this idea any thought? Would it be very hard to change the code in this manner?

This will probably be done, since it oocurs in just 1 place.

I have a few things that a higher priority that I want to finish, but this will definately be done by 1.9.8 Release.

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