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I went to a presentation by a company that dealt with translation, he mentioned this issue and his recommendation was to simply not try to be smart with it and

I went to a presentation by a company that dealt with translation, he mentioned this issue and his recommendation was to simply not try to be smart with it and have separate strings where pluralisation is done properly in each one.

moses-palmer 9y ago
What about gettext _N? I have used a library with a similar interface, and we didn't even get complaints for Slavic languages with very complex pluralisation rules.
- jwilk 9y ago
  GNU gettext has pretty good support for translating messages with numerals: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-forms.html https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural... https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Translating-plural-forms.html https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Transl...
asveikau 9y ago
That works when there are a small number of possible numerical values. But cldr has a table of plural rules for each of these languages and it's not bad to solve the problem for arbitrary integers.