Qt-interest Archive, January 2008
AW: QObject::tr() and float values
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Cheers,
Peter
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gordon Schumacher [mailto:gordon@xxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 16:41
> An: Qt-Interest
> Betreff: QObject::tr() and float values
>
> The documentation for tr() documents the method for inflecting the
> translated phrase properly for the number the user passes in - the
> tr(char const*, char const*, int) version.
>
> I have a situation where I must handle a floating-point
> number - imagine
> a string that reports "20.5 degrees Celsius", for instance.
> My quandary
> is that in English, "1.5 apples" gets a plural, but I am far
> from sure
> that this is true for all languages - much less how to deal with
> languages which have more numerical classes than singular and plural
> (i.e., Arabic).
>
> Has anybody out there had to deal with this? Could this,
> perhaps, get
> added to the tr() function in a future version of Qt?
>
> Thanks much!
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