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

[Philippe Verdy]

Hey @gravitystorm, I can also tag your reply as "out of topic". I perfectly understood what was said and also repeated again above since a very long time (and this is not the fisrt time it is reported here).

My comment was on topic because it said that very small changes was need in the OSM-side code (I did NOT ask for a revolution or complte rewriting, jsut fixing a few places with a minimal function call to process the messages). And that would certaily save lot of time from OSM developers, and many translators, an OSM admins that need to fix all these incoming reports, without getting sure that this is what is desired (the way it has been partially fixed, multiple time, has also produced errors, and pointing users to change things in TWN that was not the initial cause of the problem, meant that many messages could not be translated and have been translated and validated the wrong way, then OSM improted them as is, even if they are clearly not ideal and contain grammatical errors in many languages)

Clearly, OSM developers have to do the small job with a basic function to write to process PLURAL in messages correctly, even if you continue using the existing i18n framewok. May be you don't know how to do that, because you just known British English, but then ask to some other OSM developers that speak other languages (notably Arabic or Hebrew, but also Celtic and Slavic languages like Irish and Russian) and that have understood the CLDR specifications (which are those used now as well by Mediawiki since many years, and needed for correct worldwide support).

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