Pluralization - Support for multiple interpolation options

[kmudrick]

The pluralization support seems really limited if it only supports a single "smart_count" interpolated value. The only other option as currently implemented seems to be to string multiple phrases together and concatenate them, which seems tedious and messy.

[spikebrehm]

Good point. I wonder what the best approach would be here. Maybe smart_count, smart_count_2, ..., smart_count_N?

[ryanzec]

Its been a while, any update on this issue as it would be better than doing multiple statements?

[jasonkb]

Then you'd need 9 translations for a Russian sentence with two counts in it =P

[vwasteels]

in french, 0 is singular, ex. "0 car", is there a way to achieve this with polyglot ?

[adamhooper]

This request, er, is not what anybody wants, ever :).

Let's say you're trying to translate this:

I bought 1 banana and 2 carrots

Then you should use phrases like this:

{
  "nCarrots": "%{smart_count} carrot |||| %{smart_count} carrots",
  "nBananas": "%{smart_count} banana |||| %{smart_count} bananas",
  "sentence": "I bought %{bananas} and %{carrots}"
}

And you'd call it like this:

var carrots = polyglot.t('nCarrots', 2);
var bananas = polyglot.t('nBananas', 1);
var sentence = polyglot.t('sentence', { bananas: bananas, carrots: carrots });

This is easier to translate, and it makes more sense than combinations. Think of your poor Arabic translator: would you honestly expect him/her to translate all 36 possible combinations of smart_count and smart_count_2?

[spikebrehm]

@adamhooper great approach! Closing this issue as that is the accepted way of handling this.