[TYPO3-core] RFC: #9860: Fileadmin: New folders: Singular and plural are the same ("folders")

Xavier Perseguers typo3 at perseguers.ch
Sat Nov 29 09:05:26 CET 2008


Hi,

> This does not work well for some languages either. For example in
> Russian there are two forms for "folders" depending on the
> preceeding number:
> 
> 1 каталог
> 
> 2 каталог*а*
> 3 каталог*а*
> 4 каталог*а*
> 
> 5 каталого*в*
> 6 каталого*в*
> (and so on)

Wahoo. I already learnt something this morning. Thanks.

> I guess same will be in some other languages (Ukranian, Belorussian,
> Serbian???, Bulgarian???).
> 
> What about dropping "folder" and "folders" completely, leaving only
> numbers and adding a new label that sounds like "Number of folders
> to create:"? This will look correctly in all languages. Also it will
> let people to focus on numbers (no need to read "folders" word in
> the select box).

+1 for this idea

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en


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