String needs plural format

[catiakitahara]

The string "selected" at wp-includes/media.php:1464 needs a plural format.

[nacin]

We're not going to be able to do this for 3.5, as it requires #22229.

Best we can do is do '%d selected' and let you swap the order if your language does that.

[catiakitahara]

Replying to nacin:

Best we can do is do '%d selected' and let you swap the order if your language does that.

That wouldn't help for Portuguese, don't know about other languages.

[nacin]

Since we have only one string, we may be able to just hack in a quick JS function (with some code from #22229.

Easy way out: we go to "selected: %d".

[nacin]

Of course, if we included %d in the string, then translators could optionally go with 'selected: %d' on their own.

[nacin]

Also: ​http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2012/12/05/ive-just-found-a-string-which-needs-plural/

[ryan]

Easy way out.

[nacin]

This is ready to go. Want to wait to commit until Zé looks over the translators comment.

[westi]

Fixes the typo in the phpdoc.

[westi]

Looks good to me, I fixed a typo in the phpdoc though :)

[pavelevap]

Awesome, I did not hope that this can happen in 3.5: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22229#comment:17

"%d selected" is much better for many languages.

There is another case where we have to use this "pseudo-plural" form for comments number: #13651

[SergeyBiryukov]

22749.typo.fixed.2.diff​ fixes one more typo (two Ifs).

[vanillalounge]

"%d selected" if we must, it's the least incorrect of the solutions. Post 3.5: this ticket either needs to stay open or we need a new one.

[kenan3008]

Is this going to be commited for 3.5? I'm having the same issue in Bosnian. "%d selected" is a good workaround for my language too.

[knutsp]

Replying to kenan3008:

Is this going to be commited for 3.5? I'm having the same issue in Bosnian.

When this milestone is set by a lead developer (nacin), then to commit for that is the intention, I beleive.

In my language, Norwegian, we also need singular/plural forms for "selected" in this case, but "selected: %d" doesn't help.

In English, adjectives, like "selected" becomes this usage, do not have separate singular and plural forms, but in many other languages they do. Like in Norwegian:

"1 valgt", but "2 valgte"

On the other hand, if you say "% images are selected", then "selected" becomes a verb in preterite. In Norwegian, at least, verbs does not have different singular/plural forms.

[nacin]

Is there something else you can do with Norwegian? Even if you just translate the string to "%d" and let the numbers sit there by themselves. If the translation for "% items are selected" (it is not strictly images) is short, you can always use that.

[knutsp]

Yes, can do a rewrite to get a verb out of it instead, at least in this case. Hope it fits the space without annoying line breaks.

[nacin]

In 23075:

Media: Use '%d selected' for the selection string, and offer a comment to translators to help them find a workable solution with this would-be plural string. fixes #22749. see #22229.