[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13651: Problem with plural form in comments_number

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#13651: Problem with plural form in comments_number
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 Reporter:  pavelevap     |       Owner:  nbachiyski
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  3.1       
Component:  I18N          |     Version:  3.0       
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:            
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Comment(by nacin):

 Looks good. Still feels a bit ugly, Nikolay and I agreed, so if anyone has
 any ideas, that'd be helpful.

 Let's make sure that `array( 'One Comment', '%s Comments') )` also works,
 as _n_noop() now returns an associative array.

 Non-i18n examples:
 {{{
 comments_number_text( 'Zero Comments', array( 'One Comment', '%s Comments'
 ) );
 comments_number_link( 'Zero Comments', array( 'One Comment', '%s Comments'
 ), 'Comments off.' );
 }}}

 I wish we could sanely add these functions directly to the pot generation,
 which would allow for comments_number_text( 'Zero Comments', 'One
 Comment', '%s Comments' ), then we could translate that in parts. The
 _n_noop() makes little sense to most -- it's an extremely rare function to
 use currently, outside of core.

 Thoughts? String / array of two strings / string will trip a lot of people
 up. And i18n makes it very confusing beyond that.

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