1036632 - Document the fact that count is used as a placeholder when placeholders dne in sdk/l10n

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: Documentation, defect, P2)

Description

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

The documentation for the l10n module don't make it clear that if `_("blah", 2)` is used and the blah key takes placeholders then the 2 will be used as a count and a placeholder variable.

We have tests that this is the case already, but I don't see documentation for this atm.

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Basically the `count` argument is used as the count and as a placeholder in some of our tests like this one:

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/blob/master/test/addons/l10n/locale/fr-FR.properties#L14
https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/blob/master/test/addons/l10n/main.js#L79-L81

I didn't notice this mentioned in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/l10n#Plurals

Comment 2

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

This is mentioned here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/l10n#Plural_Forms_in_the_SDK