These days we are supposed to think about

internationalisation and localisation.

The rather elderly and inadequate

'<1P> foobar<2?:s>' expandMacrosWith: n with: n = 1

works fine for English, but when you switch to

'<1P> foobar<2?:s>' translated

�� expandMacrosWith: n with: n = 1

you run into the problem that there are

languages, such as Hebrew and Modern Standard

Arabic, with a dual number, so that you need

to distinguish 1, 2, >2 cases. Then there are

the oddball languages with a "paucal" number.

Generally it is better to rephrase the text,

'Number of foobars = <1P>' expandMacrosWith: n.

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 10:08, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

I was browsing some of the Pharo issues (always worth doing) - and noticed an interesting one about Test results reporting and pluralisation
(https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2578)

In it, I hadn't noticed String>>asPluralBasedOn: before (and judging from many messages in the image, many others hadn't either).

I'm fixing something similar for a refactoring bug and can use this technique there (although from memory, it comes with a health warning as if ever we want to internalise the messages in Pharo, this will need a different approach). However we are probably a distance from doing that - so cleaning up what we have is a good start.

Anyway I was curious if there is something to help with messages like:

��There is 1 occurrence of {1}�� vs ��There are many occurrences of {1}��, which I��d like to write something like:

��There ��,�� (��is 1 ��, ��are many ��) pick: result size, ��occurrence�� asPluralBasedOn: result size, �� ,�� result printString.

Tim