500403 - Use plural rules in new mail notifications

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Stefan Plewako [:stef]]

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We should use plural rules in new mail notifications, right now we have two strings, one for single message and another one for multiple:

newBiffNotification_message=%1$S has %2$S new message
newBiffNotification_messages=%1$S has %2$S new messages

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/messenger.properties#349

There is no problem with first one, but when I'm trying to translate second, I end with sth like "New messages (%2$S) on account %1$S". With plural rules for "%2$S new messages" it should be possible to translate this correctly, without using ugly brackets or other hacks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Until bug 477831 is fixed, I think we're very unlikely to be fixing this. All the notification code is in c++ and some of it uses OS functions that are currently only accessible from c++.