How to stop a "translation war"?
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sun Jul 6 23:51:56 BST 2025
El diumenge, 6 de juliol del 2025, a les 8:02:01 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
central), Zayed Al-Saidi va escriure:
> Dear Juraj,
>
> Thank you to bring this to my attention. It seems the scripty kiddy doing
> the fight with my Lokalize and summit without human involvement 😅.
All our translations are forced have the plural form definition of ki18n.po
It seems you may be using a different one in falkon than the one in ki18n?
Please agree on which is the correct plural form and use the same one
everywhere.
Cheers,
Albert
>
> في السبت، ٥ يوليو ٢٠٢٥، ١٢:٤٤ م Juraj Oravec <jurajoravec at mailo.com> كتب:
> > Hello,
> >
> > For a while I maintain a Falkon project.
> > Since the translations are included and synced every day within the git
> > repository, I see very often something I call a "translation war".
> >
> > This "war" consist of changing the SAME translation back and forth over
> > and over and over again. Which translator is right? I have no idea, all
> > I know is, that it is a mess and it makes a load of useless commits.
> >
> > The issue is with an Arabic (ar) translation[2] and what seems to be
> > numbers. Have a discussion here and now, determine which one is correct,
> > correct the translation (if needed) and freeze it.
> >
> > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=6; plural=n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 :
> > n%100>=3 "
> >
> > > "&& n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 && n%100<=99 ? 4 : 5;\n"
> >
> > vs
> >
> > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=6; plural=n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 :
> > n%100>=3 "
> >
> > > "&& n%100<=10 ? 3 : n%100>=11 ? 4 : 5;\n"
>
> In Arabic we using this. See
> https://wiki.arabeyes.org/Plural_Forms
>
> > PS: at the end are links to the commit history[1] for this file and to
> > an example commit[2] with this change.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your help,
> > Best regards,
> > Juraj
> >
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon/-/commits/master/poqm/ar/falkon_site
> > settingsview_qt.po [2]:
> > https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon/-/commit/c8dfd002b807c87610fff4a8332
> > 107f4ddccfcc4
> As far I understand, the result both forms will give same result.
> Fifth form: for numbers that end with a number between 11 and 99 (like:
> 1099, 278)
>
> n%100>=11 && n%100<=99 ? 4
> n%100>=11 ? 4
>
> Is that correct? As I mentioned before, we have sticked to the last one for
> decade without issue.
>
> I don't know who introduced the first one to scripty kiddy.
>
> Regards,
> Zayed
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