Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#29825 closed Bug

ngettext returns invalid result if msgstr is also a valid msgid in the same catalog — at Initial Version

Reported by: Jeremy Moffitt Owned by: nobody
Component: Internationalization Version: 2.1
Severity: Normal Keywords: ngettext localization
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

When ngettext is called with a msgid and that msgid has a msgstr that is also a valid msgid in the same catalog, the return value is not the msgstr, but instead is a single character from the msgstr. The problem seems to be that the msgstr is passed back into ngettext and since it has a valid value in the catalog, the code breaks into the else block and returns the 0 index character...

django.ngettext = function(singular, plural, count) {

var value = django.catalog[singular];
if (typeof(value) == 'undefined') {

return (count == 1) ? singular : plural;

} else {

return value[django.pluralidx(count)];

}

};

The example in OpenStack Horizon (see link below) is that the French bundle contains the following:
msgid "Image"
msgstr "Image"

This should return "Image" ... instead it returns "I" ... the result of django.catalogImage being "Image" , which then breaks into the else block of the following if statement, resulting in a return value of "Image"[0] ... or the capital letter "I". For languages where the msgstr does not match a valid key in the file, this problem does not occur.

see also openstack bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1778189

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