Re: [PATCH] Correct singular form in diff summary line for human interaction

>> > If we were to touch this, I would prefer to do so unconditionally without
>> > "hrm, can we reliably guess this is meant for humans?" and release it
>> > unceremoniously, perhaps as part of the next release that will have a much
>> > bigger user-visible UI correction to 'merge'.
>>
>> Unconditionally change is fine to me. There's another implication
>> that's not mentioned in the commit message, this change also allows
>> non-English translations. Any objections on i18n or we just keep this
>> line English only? Personally if scripts do not matter any more, I see
>> no reasons this line cannot be translated.
>
> I seem to recall that gettext does support plurals...
>
> However, going that route means that even innocuous things like the
> parentheses "(+)" can be mangled by translators (guaranteed to break
> scripts ;-)