About [[Mifos:Ui-EXCEEDING NUMBER OF DIGITS AFTER DECIMAL SEPARATOR FOR MONEY/en]]

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This message for Mifos is no longer supported, so the issue was closed. Siebrand 17:54, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

This message needs plural support.

Hi Siebrand,

I see the message reads: EXCEEDING_NUMBER_OF_DIGITS_AFTER_DECIMAL_SEPARATOR_FOR_MONEY=Only %s digit(s) after decimal separator is allowed

This seems to take care of plural support. Is this resolved or perhaps I don't understand your comment.

There are languages where adding (s) for plural just does not work. Whenever you use numbers in running sentences, you really, really need a proper implementation for plurals in your i18n framework. Have a look at Plural to see how many different grammers there are...

Thanks Siebrand. I read a little bit about plural-forms on gettext utilities. If I understand correctly, in some languages, the plural form will depend on the value of %s. In this case, the translation would have to be generated on the fly depending on %s, which seems like it would be difficult to do.

Here's another ignorant question. If we rephrase the message to read as follows: EXCEEDING_NUMBER_OF_DIGITS_AFTER_DECIMAL_SEPARATOR_FOR_MONEY=The number of digits after the decimal separator exceeds the allowed number, %s.

Is this equally difficult to translate because the plural form 'digits' is still dependent on %s?

Alternatively, I also tried to look through the code to see what %s should be, but it wasn't straightforward - I'll look more carefully and post what I discover.

In PHP using gettext extraction, you'd need something like this:

<?php
  sprintf(ngettext('Only %d digit after decimal separator is allowed',
                   'Only %d digits after decimal separator are allowed',
                   $digitsAllowed),
         $digitsAllowed);

I do not know which language Mifos is written in. We can probably provide examples for plural implementations in at least PHP, Ruby and Java.

Mifos is written in Java. It uses Spring MVC and Freemarker as well as Javascript.

A JIRA task has been filed to properly implement plurals in i18n framework.

http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-4946

Excellent progress, Jasmine. Thanks.