Accessibility labels in iOS app might need both singular and plural forms

[pixelverbieger]

Some strings in the iOS app provide accessibility labels for numbers.
Like

• %@ million
• %@ billion
• %@ trillion
• etc.

Depending on the value the placeholder can have, we need to be able to translate them to both singular and plural forms.
In German we say:

• 0,01 Millionen (plural)
• 0,1 Millionen (plural)
• 1 Million (no decimal value -> singular!)
• 1,0 Millionen (decimal value -> plural, even if decimal value is 0)
• 2 Millionen (plural)
• 2,0 Millionen (plural)

This applies to other languages as well, I think.

[tobifjellner]

Well. If we start walking down this slope, then the question would rather be if the ios environment allows proper plural handling.
Sure, if you use same plural structure as for English, then many languages will work correctly. But there are still quite a few where it works differently (Slavic languages have three different forms, depending on the number, Arabic has five, etc. In this particular case we won't have any issues with the fact that there are actually differences among various Western European languages in whether 0 is singular or plural)

[tobifjellner]

A better place for this ticket would be ​https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues

[ocean90]

We use this bug tracker to discuss bugs and enhancements in WordPress core, for mobile apps please use ​https://github.com/wordpress-mobile.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Closing per the comments above.

If there are any issues in the WordPress for iOS mobile app, please report them on their ​GitHub repository.