[Gretl-devel] pre-release testing for gretl 1.8.0

[Sven Schreiber]

Am 15.01.2009 15:49, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Alexander B. Gedranovich wrote:
> 
>> I've found two small bugs with function manager (File - Function files -
>> On server...):
>> 1) When I install function package, the local status changes from "Not
>> installed" to "Up to date" and it becomes installed locally. But, if I
>> close the manager and open it again, the local status is "Not installed"
>> again.
>> 2) When I use Russian locale this manager doesn't correctly display local
>> status. I get some readable Russian characters and some "rectangles"
>> instead of translated string "Not installed" ("Не установлен"
>> in Russian).
> 
> I think this is now fixed in CVS.  However, I'm seeing one
> apparently odd thing that is maybe introduced by gettext and I
> wonder if anyone can comment.  It's to do with the string "Not
> installed" for function packages and databases.  In ru.po this is
> given as (transliterated): "Ne ustanovlen".  But when it appears
> to the user it's "Ne ustanovlen(a)".  I added debugging code to
> print this translation to stderr as well as the GUI and it's the
> same in both cases, i.e.
> 
>

Being a former student of Russian philology myself, I'm amazed by the
accumulation of Russian-savvy non-native speakers on this list! Anyway,
and the native speakers please correct me, but the form ending in -a
would be for "female" things that are not installed (=where the word is
of female gender). IIRC gettext has some facilities that try to
automatically deal with plural and gender-specific forms, so I guess
somewhere there is a configuration setting that does it. But apart from
these vague memories I can't provide any real help.

-sven