[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57588: The picking of plural form #0 is hard-coded for singular strings

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#57588: The picking of plural form #0 is hard-coded for singular strings
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 Reporter:  jaanise            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N               |     Version:  6.1
 Severity:  minor              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion close  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):

 * keywords:   => 2nd-opinion close
 * focuses:  template =>


Comment:

 > Although asking for a not-counted string but having count-dependable
 translations is not a correct situation in itself, it can easily occur
 also due sloppy programming in third party themes or plugins, or maybe
 occur during changes to translation files or translatable strings.

 That is indeed true. I have even seen this in big plugins such as
 WooCommerce.


 > If a not-counted message is requested and the available translation
 turns out to be count-dependable, translate should probably either forward
 the call to translate_plural passing count 1, or return the untranslated
 fallback or an empty string (with a notice) if this is considered as a
 non-existing translation.

 Because of the above, making this change sounds like a breaking change to
 me at this point, so I am inclined to close this issue as a wontfix.

 Curious to hear other thoughts though.

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