Weird translation of zero count in plural messages (one ::: plural ::: none)

[infinite-dao]

Using v1.8.0 and doing testing in the test folder: if I enter at “Number of blocks” 0 then the message comes out “We have 0 blocks” instead of “We have no blocks”. This is weird. Somehow function plurals.getTranslationIndex returns 1 which extracts from the message array “We have 0 blocks”.

Am I wrong or could this be fixed? Thank you

[tikiatua]

Hi @infinite-dao,

Thank you for reporting this. Actually the problem is due to the way that multiple languages handle translations and the fact we introduced this at a later stage in the project and forgot to clean up the testing.

In the file src/vuex-i18n-plurals.js the available plural forms for all languages are defined. By default – which includes English – it will return the first form for 1 and the second form for all others. I.e. returning "We have 0 blocks" instead of "We have no blocks". Which basically both would be correct translations.

To make the use case work again, we would probably need to check, whether the default language specification is used and then also check if there is a third translation available which would then be used to define the zero translation string.

[Fluxlicious]

+1
Since it's not working you might want to follow Laravel's form:
zero ::: single ::: plural