Improve translation support

[Globulopolis]

Hi! As I see in the plugin source have a small bug with translation. At least with plural. If I trying to translate like this

...
    translation: 'знак слово осталось макс' // In russian
...

I see 0 знак(s) осталось. The (s) is always available in string because hardcoded at https://github.com/qwertypants/jQuery-Word-and-Character-Counter-Plugin/blob/master/jquery.word-and-character-counter.js#L120

Any ideas how to fix it? And how about support plurals and singulars? Maybe it's best to convert translate into array with translations for every part of string?

[RobJohnston]

It's even more difficult, because some languages (like Russian) have more than one plural form. If I remember my Russian correctly... if it was one word, "слово", between 2 and 4 words, "слова", and five or more words, "слов".

Sometimes a plural form is a completely different word, like "year" is 1 "год", 2-4 "года", or 5 "лет", so there's no pattern.

To add to the complexity, other languages (like Inuktitut) have a dual form for two and a different plural for more than two instead of breaking at five.

[RobJohnston]

Just want to add a note that I may have found something that accounts for plural rules in different languages. Found it in the go-i18n project.

So an English translation file would contain this:

[
  {
    "id": "word",
    "translation": {
      "one": "{{.Count}} word",
      "other": "{{.Count}} words"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "character",
    "translation": {
      "one": "{{.Count}} character",
      "other": "{{.Count}} characters"
    }
  },
]

And a Russian version would be something like this:

[
  {
    "id": "word",
    "translation": {
      "one": "{{.Count}} слово",
      "few": "{{.Count}} слова",
      "other": "{{.Count}} слов"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": "character",
    "translation": {
      "one": "{{.Count}} знак",
      "few": "{{.Count}} знака",
      "other": "{{.Count}} знаков"
    }
  },
]

[Globulopolis]

Good news. Waiting for new release ;)

[RobJohnston]

I don't think that I'll have time to do a pull request anytime soon. But this would also fix issue #6 too.