Count variable for cart/wishlist displayed incorrectly with Portuguese locale.

[stephenmcd]

As reported here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mezzanine-users/13aR50Iy0k0

Not sure if this is the cause of the issue, but we should probably change "x items in cart" to be a single piece of translated text, rather than "x items" and "in cart", as it currently is. Unfortunately this probably invalidates all the existing translations for it.

[arqeco]

Hello Stephen,

Talking with the first translator of Mezzanine Cartridge to Portuguese, Hilton Medeiros, about this question, he went to look at the current code and found a difference between Spanish and Portuguese plural configurations:

Spanish: ..\venv\Lib\site-packages\cartridge\shop\locale\es\LC_MESSAGE\django.po

"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"

Portuguese: ..\venv\Lib\site-packages\cartridge\shop\locale\pt_BR\LC_MESSAGE\django.po

"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"

Maybe changing the Portuguese configuration to be like the Spanish [ plural=(n != 1) ] will fix this.

Besides, he pointed me to a commit where someone has made a workaround on this issue on the french translation: b15d17d

But I believe that changing the portuguese translation to use plural=(n != 1) is the better option.

[stephenmcd]

Did you try it?

[arqeco]

I just tried changing the pt_BR setting from plural=(n > 1) to plural=(n != 1) and it did not worked. Does not matter if we use (n > 1) or (n != 1), we always get "1 item" displayed for zero or one items on the cart.

Just for your information, on this post https://lgcooper.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/zero-e-plural-ou-singular/ the author asked ABL (the brazilian portuguese language authority) about the the plural of zero, and the answer was "If the non-existent item is only one, use zero item; If there are several, use zero items". So, to me, on a shop, it's better to use zero items, if possible.

Since I couldn't do the way I prefer, I went to the same alternative being used in French b15d17d

I left the setting plural=(n > 1) (the original form) and changed the singular phrase from 1 item to %(cart_quantity)s item. And for wishlist I did the same. Now I get "0 item on cart", "1 item on cart", "2 items on cart". I'd prefer "0 items" instead of "0 item", but at least the number is not wrong.

[lscasanova]

This is still happening to me. It even happens on the demo site.