Comment by ChrisMarshallNY
Comment by ChrisMarshallNY 2 hours ago
What I do, is have two different formats in the translation tokens.
As an example, this app[0], is currently only localized in English, but I still use tokens, whenever I do apps, so the base localization[1] has stuff like this:
"SLUG-CLEANTIME-DIVIDER" = "\nThis is ";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR-EXACT" = "exactly one year.";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS-EXACT" = "exactly %d years.";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEAR" = "one year";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-YEARS" = "%d years";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTH" = "one month";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-MONTHS" = "%d months";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAY" = "one day";
"SLUG-PREFIX-CLEANTIME-DAYS" = "%d days";
It's not perfect, but is pretty flexible.
Silly stuff, I know, and the app is not exactly a viral sensation, but the folks that use it, like it.
[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nacc/id452299196
[1] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/NACC/blob/master/Sources...
[2] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_UICleantime/blob/mas...
From the little Ukrainian I know, I do know that they have 3 forms for the word year ("рік" pronounced r-ee-k). There is one that matches the English singular "рік" (but you'd also use it for e.g. 21 years), and there is one "роки" which is used for quantities 2, 3 and 4 (but also 22, 23 and 24) and another plural form "років" for the other quantities. [0]
So, the few lines of the localisation you posted don't work for Ukrainian and most other Slavic languages.
And that is the issue! Languages differ a lot in ways that are hard to catch in code. And it is the issue leading to for instance "blob(s)" in localised applications, as a lot of languages don't even have a plural, such as Mandarin.
[0] https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=uk&text=1%20year%20ol...