[Interest] Translating plural with is/are

[Thiago Macieira]

Em segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2016, às 18:44:17 PST, Jason H escreveu:
> > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 at 12:38 PM
> > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> > To: interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] Translating plural with is/are
> > 
> > Em segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2016, às 18:23:20 PST, Jason H escreveu:
> > > 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"

> > Supply a translation file for en_US.
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. I don't see anything that allows me to tell it to
> select one for singular or the other? I think I'm missing something? I'd
> like to have a redundant pluralisation check, which might not match the
> language's pluralization rules.

If you provide a translation file, the message with %n will be translated 
according to the language's plural rules. For English, you'll have two 
translations for the same source message.

	"At least one upper case character is required"
	"At least %n upper case characters are required"

QTranslator takes care to apply the correct selection based on the number that 
you passed.

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