[Interest] Translating plural with is/are

[Thiago Macieira]

Em segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2016, às 20:16:48 PST, Jason H escreveu:
> Please provide the tr line as even after re-reading I don't think it (is/are
> selection) can be done, and please reference where the docs cover that
> syntax. 
> 
> To put it in s more documentation example way: 
> Example: tr("%n message(s) saved", "", n) )
> What I want: tr("%n messages(s) [were|was] saved)", "", n) <- what do I need
> to modify here to get was/were resolving correctly?

You've got the example. Why do you need more examples from us?

You don't need to modify anything.

> The page on http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/i18n-plural-rules.html does not seem to be
> of help. It only tells me the rules Qt uses internally for determining
> pluralization. I do not see how I can supply a plural and non-plural
> string, or a string that works in both contexts and included is/are or
> was/were, respectively.

You supply it in your translation file, not in the source code.

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