KIntNumInput::setTemplate(const QString &template)

[David Faure]

On Friday 01 September 2006 19:56, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Friday 01 September 2006 10:26, David Faure wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 August 2006 17:41, Sébastien Laoût wrote:
> > > Currently, the class KIntNumInput has two methods:
> > > - setPrefix(const QString &prefix)
> > > - setSuffix(const QString &suffix)
> > >
> > > This generate two problems:
> > > 1/ No plural for is allowed.
> > >    Or to be more precise, all numbers are always presented in the plural
> > > form. 2/ Currency translation is bad.
> > >    In USA, the program should call setPreffix("$ ").
> > >    In Europe, the program should call setSuffix(" €")
> > >    (not sure if € should be postfixed or prefixed, but it's for the
> > > example: other currencies are placed after the number).
> > >
> > > For KDE 4, I propose you remove those methods in profit of that one:
> > > - KIntNumInput::setTemplate(const QString &template)
> > >
> > > The two examples will be transformed to:
> > > - setTemplate(i18n("%n minute", "%n minutes));
> >
> > Doesn't work that way. The syntax is i18n("1 minute", "%n minutes",
> > number_of_minutes).
> 
> Thank you for notifing the error but for KDE4 it becomes:
> i18np("1 minute", "%n minutes", number_of_minutes)

Yes I forgot the p when typing.

> >   setTemplate( ki18np("1 minute", "%n minutes") )
> 
> I am not 100% sure but I suppose that this will not work either.

I think it will work, since this is what i18np expands to, see also the docu in klocalizedstring.h

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