We all know the problem: We have a list of files, and we want to have a label that indicates the number of files.
In English, it's quite straightforward:
The usually internationalized version looks like this:
Looks easy, right? It's not. In Polish, there are three plural forms:
1 plik
2 pliki
5 plików
Even french is different with regard to plural forms. In English, we use the plural form for zero (0 files, 1 file, 2 files), whereas the french use singular (0 fichier, 1 fichier, 2 fichiers).
With GNU gettext for Delphi, the solution is quite straightforward:
Ngettext() will automatically select the right plural form in the local language, even if there are 1, 2, 3 or 4 plural forms, and the translations tools (poedit and kbabel) provide good features for the translator to specify each plural form in good ways.
In English, it's quite straightforward:
Label1.Caption:=IntToStr(FileCount)+' file(s)';The usually internationalized version looks like this:
resourcestring FileCountStr='%d file(s)';
Label1.Caption:=Format(FileCountStr,[FileCount]);Looks easy, right? It's not. In Polish, there are three plural forms:
1 plik
2 pliki
5 plików
Even french is different with regard to plural forms. In English, we use the plural form for zero (0 files, 1 file, 2 files), whereas the french use singular (0 fichier, 1 fichier, 2 fichiers).
With GNU gettext for Delphi, the solution is quite straightforward:
Label1.Caption:=Format(ngettext('%d file','%d files',FileCount),[FileCount]);Ngettext() will automatically select the right plural form in the local language, even if there are 1, 2, 3 or 4 plural forms, and the translations tools (poedit and kbabel) provide good features for the translator to specify each plural form in good ways.
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