[Interest] Translating plural with is/are

[Scott Aron Bloom]

> Op 08/03/2016 om 18:17 schreef Thiago Macieira:
> > On terça-feira, 8 de março de 2016 09:06:14 PST Frédéric Marchal wrote:
> >> If for instance I write tr("%n whatever rubbish I type here", "", 
> >> n) and the translator decides to translate "%n whatever rubbish I 
> >> insert here" with "One message was saved" for singular and "%n 
> >> messages were saved" for plural, then, the user will see those last 
> >> two strings. The user will never see the original "%n whatever rubbish I insert here"
> >> string from the source code.
> > When Nokia used Qt, we used to call this translating from 
> > "Engineering English" to "proper English". In some projects, the 
> > source strings always started with "!!", which helped identify what 
> > wasn't yet translated in pre- release builds.
> >
> That's actually pretty nice. Also helps to automatically find missing 
> translations popping up in the GUI using Squish or a similar tool.


That's the kind of insight that should be documented :-) It's a fantastic idea that isn't obvious at first.

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In a previous project, we did this for EVERY string though we used "## String data ##" for the same reason.

However, it wasn’t just for engineering-ese to English, we sold our product as an OEM, with various final "owners" and "product names". 

So we would translate the text "PRODUCT" and "COMPANY" for each customer/product, loaded via a qrc file at compile time, but ship translation files for foreign languages as on demand external files.

Scott