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Re: gettext and plurals

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Subject: Re: gettext and plurals
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 31 Jan 2000 08:58:34 -0800
In-reply-to: Bruno Haible's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:47:37 +0100 (MET)"
References: <200001311347.OAA11134@oberkampf.ilog.fr>
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Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx> writes:

> You cannot cover them with an 'ngettext' function which takes two strings:
> 
>    printf (ngettext ("%d file removed", "%d files removed", n), n);

Of course you can.  Read the manual.  What is not possible is to
initially write the application in such a language but this is
something I don't care about (and also explained).

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