[xliff-tools] XLIFF representation

Reinout van Schouwen reinouts at gnome.org
Wed Apr 27 01:52:50 PDT 2005


Hello Asgeir,

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:

> 3) Developers are locked in to using American English (or at least a 
> Germanic language - as Gettext natively only supports Germanic plural 
> forms).

Are you sure this is correct? Many GNOME modules, for instance, contain plural 
form msgid's where you can indicate in the header how many plural forms exist 
for a target language, and for what number of 'items' which plural is meant.

regards,

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