[PATCH 1/2] i18n: add stub ngettext implementation

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:40:05 -0800

The ngettext 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 ngettext 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 ngettext(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.

Add a simple wrapper with the English semantics so C code can start using it to mark phrases with a count for translation.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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This is based against a version of gettext.h with the fixup
(s/# GETTEXT POISON #/ GETTEXT POISON /) from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167661/focus=167878
Applying that substitution to the patch should be enough for it to
apply to a gettext.h without that change.

 gettext.h |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)