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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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Registered: March 2002
Location: Åbo, Finland

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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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[Message index]

		Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: basse on Sat, 20 April 2002 23:57
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: Ilia on Sun, 21 April 2002 00:02
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: basse on Sun, 21 April 2002 00:15
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: basse on Wed, 24 April 2002 17:40
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: Ilia on Wed, 24 April 2002 17:43
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: basse on Wed, 24 April 2002 19:35
		Re: Suggestion: code to output singular/plural when needed By: basse on Thu, 25 April 2002 08:28

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