Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

#20455 closed Bug

Don't use plural forms without specific numbers — at Version 4

Reported by: Axel Hecht Owned by: Marc Egli
Component: Internationalization Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Axel Hecht, frog32@… Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description (last modified by Ramiro Morales)

There are a handful of languages which use the same grammatical form for 1 and, say, 11.

If you're using gettext plurals for a message that doesn't specify the number, you get

"Fix the following error." when there are actually 11 errors down the line.

Example would be https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L427

#: templates/admin/change_form.html:44 templates/admin/change_list.html:67
#: templates/admin/login.html:17
#: templates/admin/auth/user/change_password.html:27
#: templates/registration/password_change_form.html:20
msgid "Please correct the error below."
msgid_plural "Please correct the errors below."
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Axel Hecht, 12 years ago

Cc: Axel Hecht added

Example plural rule for reference, Lithuanian uses:

<pluralRules locales="lt">

<pluralRule count="one">n mod 10 is 1 and n mod 100 not in 11..19</pluralRule>
<pluralRule count="few">n mod 10 in 2..9 and n mod 100 not in 11..19</pluralRule>

</pluralRules>

comment:2 by Marc Egli, 12 years ago

Cc: frog32@… added
Owner: changed from nobody to Marc Egli
Status: newassigned
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

comment:3 by Marc Egli, 12 years ago

Has patch: set

I fixed this by using two separate strings.
https://github.com/frog32/django/commit/8b10363e08e4404a0023da46baee80f2efcb00b5

There is a post on the i18n mailing list about this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/Django-I18N/Ltt4ljM4WpM

I'll squash these two commits together and file a pull request if no one has problems in their translation.

Last edited 12 years ago by Marc Egli (previous) (diff)

comment:4 by Ramiro Morales, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
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