KLocalizedString regression

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sexta-feira, 25 de março de 2011, às 13:59:11, John Tapsell escreveu:
> > Well, yes. Two grammar-wise different text fragments (enumerable vs.
> > measurable quantities) are being used in alternation, so each should be
> > represented by its own string. The author of KUnitConversion wanted the
> > same feature, so there too we ended up defining two strings, e.g:
> > 
> >      setDefaultUnit(UP(Meter, 1,
> >        ...
> >        ki18nc("amount in units (real)", "%1 meters"),
> >        ki18ncp("amount in units (integer)", "%1 meter", "%1 meters")
> >      ));
> 
> Except that in my case, I'm forcing this on the users of my API.  Just
> to get around this!
> 
> Can't you see how crazy this is?

No. You haven't said anything about your API yet.

Maybe the problem is in the API. But we don't know, because you haven't 
included a link to what API you're talking about.

> > In my opinion, however, this alternation is bad style-wise. The display
> > should use either the measurable form throughout (2.0 seconds; 2.2e4
> > seconds), or the enumerable form throughout (2 seconds; 6 hours 6
> > minutes).
> 
> But what if I want to allow both?  This is for labelling the axis of a
> graph.  I now have to have an API and forces the users to give the
> same string twice.

Huh? Why do you want to show "1.0 seconds" in the axis? Shouldn't you have 
"1.0" in the axis and then "seconds" in the axis label?

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