Pluralization with ARB files

[landyrev]

Flutter i18n has its own way to encode plurals in ARB files (see Flutter Internationalization User Guide). For example:

{
  "nWombats": "{count,plural, =0{no wombats} other{{count} wombats}}",
  "@nWombats": {
    "description": "A plural message",
    "placeholders": {
      "count": {}
    }
  }
}

i18n codegenerator converts this object into handy method String nWombats(num count)

But when I use Phrase I'm facing two problems:

1. Plurals are being pulled from Phrase to ARB files as separate i18n keys (like nWombatsZero, nWombatsOne, nWombatsOther), so I have to implement pluralization logic on my own
2. Flutter plurals are not being parsed during the push operation, so I have to work with raw values in the Phrase Editor, which is quite unusable, especially if you work with external translators (see example screenshot)

[theSoenke]

Hi @landyrev, I suggest enabling ICU in the settings of your project. You can find this at: Project Settings -> Advanced -> Enable ICU Message format. After that ICU translations will be properly highlighted and should make editing for translators quite a bit easier.

For example, your translation would look like this:

In addition, you would have to disable pluralization for all keys that are using ICU. After this you'll also get proper ICU pluralization in your arb file when pulling it.

[landyrev]

Thank you, @theSoenke, it helped 🙌

[landyrev]

it might be useful to enable this option by default for flutter projects though