International pluralization

In English, pluralization looks simple: one and many. But it’s not too simple for Russian language. And there is some other languages.

i18n means Internationalization.

I suggest to use something better for pluralization into $tc()/Vue.tc().

For example, smart-plurals.

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Now I using it with Vue like this:

// pluralize.js
import Vue from 'vue'
import smartPlurals from 'smart-plurals'
export default function pluralize(string, amount, lang) {
    string = Vue.t(string, lang).split(' | ')
    return smartPlurals.Plurals.getRule(lang)(amount, string)
}

So I can now write different amount of plural forms for different languages in one format: singular | plural for English or singular | few | plural for Russian for example.

And then just pluralize('key', value, Vue.config.lang) as a function in JS

And {{ $t('key') | pluralize(computedProperty()) }} as a filter in templates:

<!-- module.vue -->
<script>
    import filters from './filters'
    export default {
        filters: filters,
        …
    }
</script>

// filters.js
import Vue from 'vue'
import pluralize from './modules/pluralize'
export default {
    pluralize: function(string, amount) {
        return pluralize(string, amount, Vue.config.lang)
    }
}

Other sources you can see in this repo.

[Xowap]

I find it interesting that a translation system would propose pluralization that only works in English. This kind of defeats the purpose of translating… And this ticket has been open for almost two years.

In other words, are you guys motherfucking NUTS? You reached version 7 without noticing this?! Wake the fuck up guys…

Thanks ❤️

[skyrpex]

The need of a better pluralization is there, but I think this is a bit cumbersome.

Wouldn’t it be easier if we just let the translations to use the Laravel’s pluralization format? 'apples' => '{0} There are none|[1,19] There are some|[20,Inf] There are many',.

IMO, it’s simpler and more clear. Also, we could reuse Laravel labels… 👏