[Interest] Translating plural with is/are

Jason H jhihn at gmx.com
Mon Mar 7 18:23:20 CET 2016


While Qt handles certain phrases like:
"Use %n upper case character(s)" 

adequately, if phrased slightly differently:

"At least %n upper case character(s) is required"
breaks because the translation is:
1. "At least 1 upper case character is required"
2a. "At least 2 upper case characters is required" <- grammatical error.  Should be:
2b. "At least 2 upper case characters are required"

Is  there a way to indicate that if plural, that 'are' shoud be used?
"Use %n upper case character(s) [is|are] required" - where the brackets specify [singular|plural]

Many thanks



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