[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Separate translations for "zero" and "zero like numbers" (Issue #3997)

[Philippe Verdy]

Once again, reported for Ukrainian:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Translating_talk:OpenStreetMap/About_Osm:Issues.show.reports/uk

I don't understand the reply made by "We're not going to invent our own I18n framework though" which just means that he does not want to do anything (even if it would not require lot a work to provide a simple function to make the conversion and use for example the Mediawiki syntax with the same rules), and he apparently prefers having this bug reported again and again, possibly for hundreds of supported languages and for all OSM messages using PLURAL forms, and after each update. 

This causes much more loss of time for many more people, and deserves the OSM project and its worldwide community if the resulting translations are grammatically incorrect or broken and not updated when needed at each evolution of the OSM website. I think it's time to invest some time seriously.

This is not a "distraction" as said above. And this does not mean you have to change or reinvent all your i18n framework, just define a single parsing function on top of it, simply because its current implementation is defective, made with nicorerct assumptions, and not working at all to correctly support plural forms in any language other than the source English! All these messages remain "fuzzy", and not updated, causing problems for a long time on the OSM site for any user not viewing it in English.

There's not a lot of messages in OSM using PLURAL, so integrating the midding 18n function in the code will be made easily with a small patch. Translators in TWN will then work correctly and won't then need to report that same bug again and again (and without any action taken on the OSM side). TWN admins cannot decide what OSM intends to implement, so they cannot decide how to fix the validator. 

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