Comment from rbrunner on weblate:

The whole group of strings along the lines of "x <time unit> ago*, all from the Utils.js source file, run into translation problems for German: The code implements a pattern of generating a number plus an English string (e.g. 10 minutes ago) which does not work cleanly for German, where it should be "vor" plus number plus "<time units>", e.g. vor 10 Minuten

Is it possible to do something tofix that?

<joke>10 Minuten (*vor)</joke>

Well, I think what I proposed now, which results in outputs like "10 Minuten seither" is not a pretty, but a usable compromise for the time being, without any hastened code changes

Yeah but the problem probably exists for other languages as well, would be better to fix it somehow. But i understand it's tricky to find a good format in this case

Not really. With QML, you can have reference to argument indices, so you can do, eg: print("%1 %2", seconds, idiomatic_expression). German can turn "%1 %2" to "%2 %1".

Actually, don't even need that. Just "%u ago" would work, as it'd be changed to "vor %u".

The "Minuten" also has to go as a %s.

Since I assume you also have hours, etc.

Yes, string + placeholder for the number to go in would work nicely. It needs several strings (seconds, hours, days), but only 1 placeholder for the number.

Cool, good to know. Hopefully somebody will make the change. No need to have it for this release, but after, definitely.

.merges

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.merge+ #2910 #2911 #2912 #2913

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ErCiccione[m]: does the lupdate command take long?

I tried something out but now it’s taking like 10+ mins to update

No, it should be almost immediate

hmm it does not work

apparently lupdate supports plurals

try `lupdate -pro monero-wallet-gui.pro -ts translations/monero-core.ts -no-obsolete`

I’m interested if weblate also supports it

it does afaik

yea it does not work on my system somehow

will downgrade my Qt version

weird

hmm does not work :(

and then it gets stuck

same without -pluralonly

ErCiccione[m]: can you test how this looks in weblate? monero-project/monero-gui #2915

if I understand it correctly we should be able to specify the correct plurals for every language (including english)

even if they have 3+ plural forms

I think i had that error in past, but i don't remember why

i will test that PR on my weblate instance later today or tomorrow. About the plurals, i don't know much about it, i have to look it up, but weblate seem to be already using them.

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