897523 - [B2G][l10n] Russian: Plural translations for "few" are wrong

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ru / Russian, defect)

Description

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

I was toying with plural rules and I realized that the translations for "few" cases in pluralized strings might be wrong.  My Russian is a bit rusty, but I think that in the following example, the "few" case (which works for 2, 3, 4) should use "года":

years-ago-long[two] = {{value}} года назад
years-ago-long[few] = {{value}} лет назад

This happens in all date related strings, for minutes, days, weeks, month and years, in shared/date and apps/calendar:

https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/ru/file/6526ea06089e/shared/date/date.properties#l86
https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/ru/file/6526ea06089e/apps/calendar/calendar.properties#l98

Comment 1

[Alexander L. Slovesnik]

Can you confirm that "few" in Gaia is less than 5? 
Russian has 3 forms of plural - see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Localization_and_Plurals#Plural_rule_.237_.283_forms.29 Where can I find documentation on how to correspond Gecko plurals with Gaia plurals ([few]/[many]/[other])? And what the purpose of {[ plural(value) ]} in Gaia l10n?

Comment 2

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

As per http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html#ru, the "few" case mathes the following numbers

few	2-4, 22-24, 32-34...


{[ plural(value) ]} is simply how the localization library knows that it's supposed to pluralize the string.

Comment 3

[Alexander L. Slovesnik]

(In reply to Staś Małolepszy :stas from comment #2)
> As per
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/supplemental/language_plural_rules.
> html#ru, the "few" case mathes the following numbers
> 
> few	2-4, 22-24, 32-34...
Thanks. It would be nice if it would be documented somewhere on https://developer.mozilla.org/

> {[ plural(value) ]} is simply how the localization library knows that it's
> supposed to pluralize the string.
Why it's exposed to localizers? There were a lot of cases when localizers had localized strings that should not be localized. Let's not provide us a gun for foot shooting.

Comment 4

[Alexander L. Slovesnik]

Fixed in https://hg.mozilla.org/gaia-l10n/ru/rev/b6e0d4a11726