Information about plural forms of strings

[milotype]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. There are several source strings which use the "plural form" at Transifex, for instance:

`#: src/FormList.php:50 src/EntityConfig.php:99 src/Form.php:135

: src/Form.php:543 src/Form.php:1899

msgid "Form" msgid_plural "Forms"`

`#: src/FormAnswer.php:246 src/FormAnswer.php:694 src/Target_Actor.php:89

: src/Target/AbstractItilTarget.php:1816 src/Issue.php:627

: src/NotificationTargetFormAnswer.php:86 entrée standard:48

msgid "Requester" msgid_plural "Requesters"`

Question Are these plural forms used to show counts, or are they used simply as general plural forms? Several languages (including Croatian which I'm translating) need the context for those srings, as they have several plural forms depending upon the count.

Describe the solution you'd like Please add a comment to those strings about the usage of plural forms. Maybe add a screenshot ...

[milotype]

Please check https://www.transifex.com/teclib/glpi-project-plugin-formcreator/translate/#hr_HR/2_15_0/441937921?q=pluralized%3Ayes

[btry]

Hi

Plural forms may be used to show counts. It depends on the existence of such case in the code.

I see 3 forms for Croatian, from your link to Transifex

• 1
• few
• other

In hr_HR.po I see the following

Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2;\n

I'm not expert with translations especially with plural rules like your language (this is unknown in my own language).

If I try to understand the plural rule in the .po file, I see that

• when count modulo 10 is 1 and count modulo 100 is not 11 then first form should be used (singular)
• when count modulo 10 is greater or equal to 2 and less or equal to 4 and (count modulo 100 is less than 10 or count modulo 100 is greater or equal to 20) then the second form should be used. This should match "few" in Transifex
• Other cases matches the form 3 which should match "many" in Transifex.

Everywhere in the code, when a localizable string with plural is used the developer must specify a count. It may be

• arbitrary (some tables with header use a hardcoded "1"). I don't believe there is an hardcoded count strictly greater than 1 (I replace them long ago with a call to Session::getPluralNumber() )
• a number found by counting rows from a SQL query
• the plural number returned by Session::getPluralNulber() which probably matches "many" in Transifex.

I hope this helps you to properly decide how to translate. If not, let me know and I'll try to find more information.

[milotype]

@btry Thank you for your answer. I know about the handling of Croatian plural forms. Could you please post screenshots for:

#: src/FormList.php:50 src/EntityConfig.php:99 src/Form.php:135 #: src/Form.php:543 src/Form.php:1899 msgid "Form" msgid_plural "Forms"

and

#: src/FormAnswer.php:246 src/FormAnswer.php:694 src/Target_Actor.php:89 #: src/Target/AbstractItilTarget.php:1816 src/Issue.php:627 #: src/NotificationTargetFormAnswer.php:86 entrée standard:48 msgid "Requester" msgid_plural "Requesters"

Are those strings used as in https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/blob/10.0/bugfixes/pics/screenshots/dashboard.png ?