Re: [bug-mailutils] i18n issue

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Jordi,

> If someone here sent the 0.4.90 release to the TP, thanks, I wasn't
> aware it had been released.

It's a pre-release. I have announced it to TP in order to give the
translators some time to update their localizations before the
release of 0.5. I'm going to release it next week. 

> This kind of string concatenation will work for me and English, but
> surely won't be valid for other languages with more complex sentence
> constructs.

Yes, that's a week point, but it is hard to cope with (see below).
However, as far as I can tell, this will work for romance, germanic
and slavic languages. This suits Chinese as well. It may create some
problems with Japanese, but for this case I have provided a
"pseudo-translation" point (see frm.c:565). 

> 
> We should use
> msgid "Folder contains %lu new message"
> msgid_plural "Folder contains %lu new messages"

Unfortunately, we cannot. We should have used:

"Folder contains %lu new message, %lu unread message, %lu read message"
"Folder contains %lu new messages, %lu unread message, %lu read message"
"Folder contains %lu new messages, %lu unread messages, %lu read message"
[..etc. Total: 3!=6 msgids.. ]

but then we would need some kind of ngettext3() to handle these.
Unfortunately, gettext is not able to handle such constructs...

Regards,
Sergey