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translations: fix "files/folders" strings #1066

Open jekader opened 9 years ago

jekader commented 9 years ago

At the moment, strings for files/folders have hardcoded plurals: https://github.com/owncloud/android/blob/master/res/values/strings.xml#L350-L357

This works for English however for other languages plurals can have several forms ("2 folders" and "5 folders" will have different translations)

I suggest fixing these strings according to make existing translation processes work: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Translating-plural-forms.html

davivel commented 9 years ago

Any example about applying that in Android apps? Our translations are supported by the resource system in Android, that automatically loads the correct set of values according to a chosen locale. Right now I'm not sure if it's feasable to have arrays of string resources with different size depending of the locale.

AndyScherzinger commented 9 years ago

Android supports plurals out-of-the-box, see for example: http://www.grokkingandroid.com/wrapping-your-head-around-androids-plurals/

Problem is... the translator would need to know which of the plurals the respective language supports in order to add a translation for them (German and English only support the plurals one and other) . Besides it can't be done like the GNU way. It has to be done based on the ICU / Unicode rules which are taken into account by Android's plurals system.

jekader commented 9 years ago

From what I understand in this project's description: https://code.google.com/p/android-i18n-plurals/ android 3.0 and above will have correct handling of "one/few/many/other" values according to this table: http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html

So it may just be enough to add strings for these values and Android will handle the rest. As you see from the table, the formula fro Russian and other Slavic languages is not that trivial. It's even more complicated for Arabic.

davivel commented 9 years ago

Awesome!

Besides, seems that Transifex also supports the plurals element, so the circle seams closed: http://docs.transifex.com/formats/android/

That means...

purigarcia commented 9 years ago

@tobiasKaminsky , @AndyScherzinger , @LukeOwncloud and whoever feels like, contributions are wellcome here :)

Kernald commented 9 years ago

How do we handle the change in Transifex? I don't really know how to use it, but I'm pretty sure there's no automatic way to keep our current translations when some strings are replaced by one plural. Do we have to report every changed string in every language?

davivel commented 8 years ago

@Kernald , sorry for answering so late.

Just don't care about Transifex. Make the changes only in res/values/strings.xml and the translations will be available "when-it's-done".