Re: [Tails-l10n] Bug in Macedonian translation on Transifex

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Autor: emma peel
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ey there:

This is what I found out about the Macedonian problem, but I didn't found the solution:


emma peel:
> intrigeri:
>> Hi,
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>> i18nspector is not happy:
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>>   E: perl-brace-format-string-missing-argument msgid 1y: count not in msgstr[0] while in msgid_plural
>>   E: perl-brace-format-string-missing-argument msgid 1d: count not in msgstr[0] while in msgid_plural
>>   E: perl-brace-format-string-missing-argument msgid 1h: count not in msgstr[0] while in msgid_plural
>>   E: perl-brace-format-string-missing-argument msgid 1m: count not in msgstr[0] while in msgid_plural
>>   E: perl-brace-format-string-missing-argument msgid 1s: count not in msgstr[0] while in msgid_plural
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>> I believe that's because Macedonian has different plural forms than
>> e.g. Spanish:
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>> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n % 10 == 1 && n % 100 != 11) ? 0 : 1;\n"
>> … which the translations I pulled from Transifex don't take into account.
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> This kind of freaky things are the ones that I like about i18n. I went on a knowledge gathering mission and I found that:
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> Transifex takes it into account, but the problem is that we are not adding {count} on the first msgid.
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> It seems Macedonian uses a form for numbers that **end** in 1: 1, 21, 31, 41, 1001, etc.
> They don't divide numbers in singular vs. plural as we do.
> So we need the {count} variable on the string for the numbers that end in 1, and another for numbers that don't. (ikr!)
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> I found a list of gettext expressions at
> https://php-gettext.github.io/Languages/ and there it says that:
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> Macedonian:    n % 10 != 1 || n % 100 == 11
> Spanish:     n != 1
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> The header of the .po files is right and gives the right headers.
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> The translation GUI in transifex has a special thingy to translate this, and it takes it into account
> (ref: https://www.transifex.com/otf/torproject/translate/#mk/tails-misc/319419042?q=text%3A1y )
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> If you look into the tail repo's ./mk.po file, the two options are there:
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> #. Translators: Don't translate {count}, it's a place holder and
> #. will be replaced.
> #. y is the short form for years.
> #: config/chroot_local-includes/usr/src/iuk/lib/Tails/IUK/DownloadProgress.pm:78
> #, perl-brace-format
> msgid "1y"
> msgid_plural "{count}y"
> msgstr[0] "1г"
> msgstr[1] "{count}г"
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> It seems that the problem is that  msgid "1y" should be  msgid "{count}y", because it will be used for 1, 21, 31, etc.
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> Does this make sense?
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> I started making a merge request, but I need help with the calculation of numbers on
> config/chroot_local-includes/usr/src/iuk/lib/Tails/IUK/DownloadProgress.pm because I don't know how to make it
> different for Macedonian, so I leave it to you....
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