Need to provide access to the count of items for translations to work
Bug #1261798 reported by
David Planella
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libusermetrics (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Unlike English (and Spanish, Italian and other ones), some languages have multiple plural forms, which the SDK supports using the i18n.tr() call in QML. One example with multiple plural forms is Arabic.
For this to work, we need to access the actual count of items and pass it to the i18n.tr() function, e.g.
format: i18n.tr("%1 song played today", "%1 songs played today", songCount)
But it seems libusermetrics is not making the count accessible to QML, hence this request to make the count available.
(*) Note: the syntax is slightly redundant right now, but it works. See bug 1184810
I don't think it's necessarily desirable to expose the count to the app. It might be best and the most privacy-centric to introduce a "singularFormat" to compliment the current "format" and "emptyFormat". It also is probably easier to implement.