Bug 3711

Summary: Usage of (s)
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Nicky <nicky>
Component: UI/TranslationsAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3    
Version: other   
Hardware: Other   
OS: other   

Description Nicky 2016-10-10 19:06:09 UTC
I'm in the process of proofreading the Danish translation with the help of the translator. There is several places throughout Claws Mail where constructs like this is used:

#: src/compose.c:11388
msgid ""
"Do you want to insert the contents of the file(s) into the message body, or "
"attach it to the email?"

However, while some of them is possible (but ugly) in Danish, this one is not. The reason is that file and files in this context in Danish have different endings:

File = Filen
Files = Filerne

A rewrite of the string is also not possible in this case since "correct" Danish builds the sentence up around "the one" or "the several" part of the string.

That means we have to choose between one or several when translating, which is, of course, less than optimal.

A issue like this is off course very minor. But I was hoping the number of these constructs could be reduced over time.

Thank you all very much for Claws Mail
Comment 1 users 2016-10-10 20:31:03 UTC
Changes related to this bug have been committed.
Please check latest Git and update the bug accordingly.
You can also get the patch from:
http://git.claws-mail.org/

++ ChangeLog	2016-10-10 20:31:03.511119585 +0200
http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c1c044bd1dc2bafb33cd99e29e34983c985e323
Merge: dcd7355 0fec6a0
Author: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
Date:   Mon Oct 10 20:31:02 2016 +0200

    Merge branch 'master' of file:///home/git/claws

http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws.git;a=commitdiff;h=0fec6a07b67735eedb29e20e987a7096e5d8f78d
Author: Andrej Kacian <ticho@claws-mail.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 10 20:08:49 2016 +0200

    Improve plural handling of a file insert string.
    
    Fixes bug #3711.
Comment 2 Andrej Kacian 2016-10-10 22:40:19 UTC
Thanks for reporting it, Nicky.