Plural rules (i18next v4) not working for Montenegrin

[dusan-smolnikar]

Describe the issue

I am using i18next v4 json files for my translations. Among the languages I also have Montengrin (me.js)

In the file me.js I had a plural form of the following translation: "episode_one": "{number} epizoda", "episode_other": "{number} epizoda", "episode_few": "{number} epizode",

However, Weblate for some reason requires the forms one, few, many:

When I save this translation string I lose the episode_few key from my source file, but episode_one and episode_other are kept.

I already tried

• [X] I've read and searched the documentation.
• [X] I've searched for similar filed issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Import me.js with correct plural rules into weblate:

   "episode_one": "{number} epizoda",
   "episode_other": "{number} epizoda",
   "episode_few": "{number} epizode",

   Weblate requires me to write entries:

   • episode_one
   • episode_few
   • episode_many

Expected behavior

Weblate requires entering of

• episode_one
• episode_other
• episode_few

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How do you run Weblate?

Other

Weblate versions

Weblate 5.3.1

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[nijel]

There are two issues here:

1. translate-toolkit doesn't have a definition for this language (because it's not present in CLDR) and loads and saves only one/many.
2. Weblate has wrong labels here. The reason is that it uses the same plural formula as other languages which have one/few/many. This is caused by Weblate not supporting decimals in plural formulas and I don't see an easy way to address this. But this is just a display issue (showing Many instead of Other) and doesn't affect saving.

[dusan-smolnikar]

Regarding no. 1 - Not sure if this info is helpful at all, but in the Unicode CLDR the language is defined as sr-Latn-ME. The plural rules are the same as for Serbian (sr). Is there a way I can configure language aliases to make Weblate believe this is Serbian language? However, I do have Serbian language separate though, and they shouldn't be mixed.

For no. 2 - It's not just a display issue. I entered all 3 values in Weblate and committed - But this resulted in translations being deleted in my git repository. The only workaround was to manually return the key/value pair and not touch this translation in Weblate.

[nijel]

Writing is again caused by missing definitions in the translate-toolkit.

[nijel]

https://github.com/translate/translate/pull/5212 should address saving/loading part, let's keep this issue open for the display issue.

[dusan-smolnikar]

Great, thanks!

[gs-xpeng]

We also met the similar issue : We found that :

“aaaa”:"aaaa", “aaaa_one”:"aaaa", “aaaa_two”:"aaaa", will keep the key “aaaa” stay only .

“aaaa”:"aaaa", “aaaa_other”:"aaaa", will keep the key “aaaa” stay only .

[gs-xpeng]

Is there any way to disable Plural rules ?

[nijel]

@gs-xpeng You can use "JSON file" instead, it will load all keys as they are.

The plural fix got finally released today at translate-toolkit: https://github.com/translate/translate/releases/tag/3.13.0