How to translate numeric plurals

[Ľudovít Lučenič]

Hello, how do I translate this label: admin.issuesettings.statuses.workflows.count in JIRA Core, when there is used numeric choice for plural in this case? Basically, I do not understand the format used:

• {0,choice,0#No associated workflows|1#1 associated workflow|1<{0,number} associated workflows}. 

Could you give me some hints, please, on how to formulate a version for Slovak, where we have these plural forms: 0, 5+ / 1 / 2-4 ?

Please, and also verify that there is not a bug in the translation string provided. Using it without modification as a translation corrupts the rendering, only "1 associated workflow" is printed then regardless of the count.

Note: the string can be found in Administration / Issues / Issue attributes / Statuses form in a particular column in the list of statuses.

Thank you very much in advance.

[Ľudovít Lučenič · Accepted solution]

The actual solution was this

{0,choice,0#Nepoužitý v žiadnom|1#1 priradený postup|2#{0,number} priradené postupy|5#{0,number} priradených postupov}

It is based on the documentation to the ChoiceFormat.

[Peter Geshev]

Can you try 

{0,choice,0#No associated workflows|1#1 associated workflow|1<{0,number} associated workflows 2-4|5 associated workflows|5<{0,number} workflows 5+}

[Ľudovít Lučenič]

Thank you, however, there are some problems with your answer:

1. the section for 5 does not have any 5# prefix, so I assume it won't work
2. I was also looking for the explanation of the format
3. the question stated we have 3 plural forms, not 4 (5+ was meant 5,6,7,...)
4. I tried and it did not work

[Peter Geshev]

Hi, Ľudovít, you are right, the section for 5 is missing #5, and the whole section is unnecessary. Maybe you could try the following

{0,choice,0#No associated workflows|1#1 associated workflow|1<{0,number} associated workflows 2-4|4<{0,number} workflows 5+}

The syntax used is the one for MessageFormat and in particular the ChoiceFormat clauses.

[Ľudovít Lučenič]

Hi Peter, thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately your suggested format did not work either. The ChoiceFormat link is also a bit misleading as it goes to some irrelevant anchor in the page. However, you have helped me to find the solution, so +1 for you

Kindest regards,
Ľudovít

[Ľudovít Lučenič]

The only working solution for me so far is the following boilerplate...

{0,choice,0#Nepoužité v žiadnom|1#1 priradený|2#2 priradené|3#3 priradené|4#4 priradené|5<{0,number} priradených}