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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-01-10 11:52:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-01-10 11:52:49 -0800 |
| commit | b6f538f2966e60c10f34c94e6417ccf967b2a521 (patch) | |
| tree | 524202ac1c9fe57ea6531fb6ee9f7ea88b2997fd | |
| parent | 66f6c18e5b8706f07a9a8cbd06942d4c7835f7d7 (diff) | |
| parent | 786eb1ba39d7bc177930f3c9b19d2989da0a7c58 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'js/l10n-mention-ngettext-early-in-readme'
Localization doc update.
* js/l10n-mention-ngettext-early-in-readme:
l10n: README: call more attention to plural strings
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diff --git a/po/README.md b/po/README.md index dcd8436c25..19fabb4acf 100644 --- a/po/README.md +++ b/po/README.md @@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ General advice: - Adjust the strings so that they're easy to translate. Most of the advice in `info '(gettext)Preparing Strings'` applies here. +- Strings referencing numbers of items may need to be split into singular and + plural forms; see the Q\_() wrapper in the C sub-section below for an + example. + - If something is unclear or ambiguous you can use a "TRANSLATORS" comment to tell the translators what to make of it. These will be extracted by xgettext(1) and put in the "po/\*.po" files, e.g. from |