[Development] [Interest] Direct-lookup translation, even for English (was Re: get english translation)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 05 September 2014 09:16:48 André Somers wrote:
> > This did not extract the string for translation. It needs to be something
> > that does extract for translation and does translate to another language
> > if a translator was loaded.
> 
> I don't see how it properly could. Both strings would be specialized 
> anyway for the singular and plural case. The singular version probably 
> would not even have a placemarker for the number in it. How would that 
> work in the translation? You could still use a translatable string for 
> both alternatives, but I think that's completely missing the point. You 
> either do localization, or you don't. This really sounds like a weird 
> in-between, non-solution to me.

Fortunately for us, existing implementations have done this successfully for 
years and prove it's possible.

https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Localization/i18n#Plurals

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