Dysfunctional i18n function

[xibe]

With at least the fr_FR and ru_RU translation, the "All" link at the top of the /wp-admin/edit-comments.php page is still in English.

The code used in WP is:

'all' => _nx_noop('All', 'All', 'comments'), // singular not used

Could there be an issue with _nx_noop()?

I can confirm it, with German lanugage it's the same.

Is the string not showing up in the pot file? I imagine makepot.php might need updating...

​It is:

#: wp-admin/edit-comments.php:215
msgctxt "comments"
msgid "All"
msgid_plural "All"
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""

As Sergey noted on wp-polyglots, it is the only place where _nx_noop() is used.

In that case, nx() doesn't work right.

_nx_noop() is fine; it just returns an array. I dug deeper and found the problem in edit-comments.php: this string requires translating with context using _nx(), however _n() is used, which doesn't support context.

(In [15295]) Check for context item, when using noop-ed plural translations. Props SergeyBiryukov, fixes #13996 for 3.0 branch

Sergey is right and his patch is in for 3.0.1.

For 3.1, I would like to make the *_noop() functions return an associative array, because using these indices is totally incomprehensible.

Along that, we should introduce a translate_nooped_plural() function to:

1. Hide the complexity of the conditional use of _n() or _nx(), depending on the presence of context.
2. Make localization of the places, where we lazy-translating noop-ed strings.

@nbachiyski: Freeze for 3.1 is a few days away. Did you still want to put in an update in this release?

(In [16073]) Introduce and use translate_nooped_plural(). Fixes #13996

• _n_noop() and _nx_noop() now return associative arrays for greater clarity
• translate_nooped_plural() takes one such associative array and translates it
• it works on both the result from _n_noop() and from _nx_noop()
• this breaks backwards compatibility, but I doubt any plugin uses it (I will do a global grep to confirm)
• translate_nooped_plural() is applied where applicable

Follow-up: #20188