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Oggetto: [WikimediaMobile] Translate FFS support for plurals on
Android, iOS?
Data: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:01:26 -0700
Mittente: Brion Vibber
A: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
We need proper support for plurals in some string translations on the
Wikipedia native mobile apps; I'm currently looking at the AndroidFFS
import/export module and trying to figure out how ready that is, and
looking into how to improve the AppleFFS import/export module for
iOS/OSX projects.
Android has native plural strings support allowing for a separate
complete string for each plural form. AndroidXmlFFS in Translate has
some sort of import/export conversion into something like
'{{PLURAL|one=foo|others=bar}}' in the messages exposed to translators,
but plurals are not used in the new Wikipedia Android app yet so I see
no live examples. There are a few plural strings in the Android version
of the Commons app we did last year, but those strings do not appear in
any of the localizations and I can't find them in TWN, so I'm worried
that the import of plural strings from the 'strings.xml' doesn't
actually work.
Also, the format the AndroidXmlFFS module uses doesn't quite seem the
same as what MediaWiki uses ('{{PLURAL:$1|foo|bar}}'). Is that going to
be confusing for translators, or should we change it to look more like
the MediaWiki form? (Does this require mapping positional parameters to
plural form names, or are they always in a known order?)
iOS 7/OS X 10.9 also has a 'native' way of handling plurals which
requires a second '.stringdict' output file alongside the '.strings'
file; or there are CLDR-powered compatibility libraries
like
https://github.com/Smartling/ios-i18n which embed multiple message
alternates in the main '.strings' file.
I could rig up an import/export filter similar to the Android one (or
maybe share the actual list<->parser function conversion code), but
first I want to check if it works and if it's what the translators
expect to work with...
-- brion