[wp-polyglots] Re: Plural forms

Peter Westwood peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk
Sat Mar 15 14:49:53 GMT 2008


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Christian Barmala wrote:
| Am 15.03.2008 14:31, Peter Westwood schrieb:
|> Christian Barmala wrote:
|>> Am I right, that the simplified WordPress gettext functions "__()"
|>> and "_e()" do *not* support plural forms?
|> correct.
|> For plural forms we use __ngettext
|
| Yes, but is this function actually used? I didn't find an occurrence in
| my installation of WP 2.3.
|

Yes (some examples from 2.3.2)

./wp-includes/formatting.php:
$since = sprintf(__ngettext('%s min', '%s mins', $mins), $mins);
$since = sprintf(__ngettext('%s hour', '%s hours', $hours), $hours);
$since = sprintf(__ngettext('%s day', '%s days', $days), $days);

cheers

westi
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