This doesn’t work for many languages, and only works for English if you format
your copy to match (ex: “you don’t have any bookmarks” vs “you have no
bookmarks”)
Thanks,
Daniel Heath
> On 3 Oct 2019, at 5:49 am, Marc Köhlbrugge wrote:
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> I wonder how many Rails apps use i18n though. I p
I wonder how many Rails apps use i18n though. I personally never use it and
it seems counter intuitive to use it just for cases like these.
I didn't consider the proposed solution might not work for all languages.
That's a fair point. While it does work for the handful of languages I
know, I ca
I believe you should use i18n for cases like this:
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#pluralization
Also it's enough to add a word 'no' before people in English, but that might
not be enough for other languages where you need to add that word after
'people' or change the word 'people' in
I'm considering making a PR to add an optional "zero" argument to the
pluralize text helper. This would allow you to set an alternative word for
0 (zero) when the count is zero. This is especially useful in cases where a
more human "You have no bookmarks." is preferred over "You have 0
bookmark
