You are right, Sven. "-a" in the end of the word stands for "female". Currently, I remove it from . I know  about gettext facility to handle plural forms, but as far as Russian translation in "a deep beta", I don't do it now.
Amazed with a quantity of Russian speakers among econometricians :)

Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 15.01.2009 15:49, Allin Cottrell schrieb:
  
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Alexander B. Gedranovich wrote:

    
I've found two small bugs with function manager (File - Function files -
On server...):
1) When I install function package, the local status changes from "Not
installed" to "Up to date" and it becomes installed locally. But, if I
close the manager and open it again, the local status is "Not installed"
again.
2) When I use Russian locale this manager doesn't correctly display local
status. I get some readable Russian characters and some "rectangles"
instead of translated string "Not installed" ("Íå óñòàíîâëåí"
in Russian).
      
I think this is now fixed in CVS.  However, I'm seeing one
apparently odd thing that is maybe introduced by gettext and I
wonder if anyone can comment.  It's to do with the string "Not
installed" for function packages and databases.  In ru.po this is
given as (transliterated): "Ne ustanovlen".  But when it appears
to the user it's "Ne ustanovlen(a)".  I added debugging code to
print this translation to stderr as well as the GUI and it's the
same in both cases, i.e.


    

Being a former student of Russian philology myself, I'm amazed by the
accumulation of Russian-savvy non-native speakers on this list! Anyway,
and the native speakers please correct me, but the form ending in -a
would be for "female" things that are not installed (=where the word is
of female gender). IIRC gettext has some facilities that try to
automatically deal with plural and gender-specific forms, so I guess
somewhere there is a configuration setting that does it. But apart from
these vague memories I can't provide any real help.

-sven

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