[gettext] Re: Sed 3.02a and problem with i18n

[Bruno Haible]

Tommi Vainikainen wrote on 1999-03-20:

> In sed/utils.c function void ck_fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, stream):
> panic(_("couldn`t write %d item%s to %s: %s"), nmemb, nmemb==1 ? "" :
>       "s", utils_fp_name(stream), strerror(errno));
>
> This is a bit hard to translate to languages not using ending "s" as
> plural.

With gettext-0.10.37 being released, this code ought to use the
'ngettext' function, which was designed precisely for this case.
Please tell the sed maintainers.

Bruno