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Impossible to translate to Romanian

Open alexei opened this issue 1 month ago • 2 comments

I was checking out the package to use it in a project. I'd need to translate it to Romanian, however a summary look reveals that would be a challenging task. For example the ordinal seems to make a map of suffixes for numbers 0-9, but that doesn't work in Romanian:

0th
to my knowledge doesn't exist, but maaaybe among friends you could say "al 0-lea" (m); maybe; no (f) though;
1st
"prima" (f); "primul" (m);
2nd
"a 2-a" (f); "al 2-lea" (m);
3rd
"a 3-a" (f); "al 3-lea" (m);
23rd
"a 23-a" (f); "al 23-lea" (m).

So to give it a chance to translate at least the possible strings, they would need to interpolate the value.

alexei avatar Oct 18 '25 22:10 alexei

For the record, see how Django does it:

https://github.com/django/django/blob/d506e4a52847ed4fb80754175d76b6b83ff90929/django/contrib/humanize/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L29-L82

alexei avatar Oct 19 '25 08:10 alexei

Thanks for the report, would you like to propose a fix?

hugovk avatar Oct 20 '25 09:10 hugovk