Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Plural strings that can be zero

This is also complicated by English using two different nouns: One 
*match* found VS %1 results. Some good person translated *match* as 
*game* BTW!

Strictly speaking, in terms of grammar of numbers, the Irish 
distribution is correct (zero with the Other group), but colloquially 
people don’t really talk about “zero results” (0/náid torthaí) they say 
“no results” (toradh ar bith).

Ar 16/10/26 12:16 r.n., scríobh Neil Roberts:
> Hi Andika,
>
> Andika Triwidada<andika@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Quite interesting bug you found :D
> > Actually in weblate, we translator get a hint, but a very confusing one:
> > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-master/swmessages/id/?checksum=358910cf6353536a
> > Above top translation entry field states "Indonesian, Singular (0, 1)"
> > while above bottom translation entry says: "Indonesian, Plural (2, 3, 4, 5,
> > 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, …)"
> >
> > I didn't understand that hint before reading your post.
> Oh, I didn’t know about that. That’s nice to know.
>
> > Proper thing to do, I think, is to report a bug against those strings
> > with "Impossible to translate into some languages"
> It’s not actually impossible to translate. For these languages the
> translator should translate the first string as something like “%1 match
> found” and that will come out as either “0 match found” or “1 match
> found”, while something like “0 match found” is presumably not supposed
> to sound weird in those languages.
>
> Alternatively we could fix the code by adding a special string for the
> case where there are no matches, eg, “no matches found”. This has the
> advantage that it will seem more natural in English too. I made a bug
> and patches for that approach:
>
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173991
>
> But even if we go with that approach then the translators might want to
> fix the string anyway so that it will look correct in 26.8 because we
> can’t add any new strings there.
>
> Regards,
> – Neil
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