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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2011-03-09 21:17:58 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-03-09 23:50:57 -0800
commit0c9ea33b90f6ed73b9c9151c2cad9ce341d6778b (patch)
tree1c87ad15b622e506403830cdf609f19be643eb25 /gettext.h
parent309552295af4b0f2ddd1af15d919441b1744523a (diff)
downloadgit-0c9ea33b90f6ed73b9c9151c2cad9ce341d6778b.tar.gz
i18n: add stub Q_() wrapper for ngettext
The Q_ function translates a string representing some pharse with an alternative plural form and uses the 'count' argument to choose which form to return. Use of Q_ solves the "%d noun(s)" problem in a way that is portable to languages outside the Germanic and Romance families. In English, the semantics of Q_(sing, plur, count) are roughly equivalent to count == 1 ? _(sing) : _(plur) while in other languages there can be more variants (count == 0; more random-looking rules based on the historical pronunciation of the number). Behind the scenes, the singular form is used to look up a family of translations and the plural form is ignored unless no translation is available. Define such a Q_ in gettext.h with the English semantics so C code can start using it to mark phrases with a count for translation. The name "Q_" is taken from subversion and stands for "quantity". Many projects just use ngettext directly without a wrapper analogous to _; we should not do so because git's gettext.h is meant not to conflict with system headers that might include libintl.h. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'gettext.h')
-rw-r--r--gettext.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index 04b5958e2b..1b253b7e76 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
#ifndef GETTEXT_H
#define GETTEXT_H
-#ifdef _
-#error "namespace conflict: '_' is pre-defined?"
+#if defined(_) || defined(Q_)
+#error "namespace conflict: '_' or 'Q_' is pre-defined?"
#endif
#define FORMAT_PRESERVING(n) __attribute__((format_arg(n)))
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) const char *_(const char *msgid)
return use_gettext_poison() ? "# GETTEXT POISON #" : msgid;
}
+static inline FORMAT_PRESERVING(1) FORMAT_PRESERVING(2)
+const char *Q_(const char *msgid, const char *plu, unsigned long n)
+{
+ if (use_gettext_poison())
+ return "# GETTEXT POISON #";
+ return n == 1 ? msgid : plu;
+}
+
/* Mark msgid for translation but do not translate it. */
#define N_(msgid) (msgid)