How to translate plural forms in zanata online editor?

[Alick Zhao]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Ding Yi Chen <dchen at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Jérôme Fenal <jfenal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 2015-10-24 18:32 GMT+02:00 Alick Zhao <alick9188 at gmail.com>:
>> >> Howdy,
>> >>
>> >> I have not looked close at fedora.zanata.org lately, and it seems now
>> >> zanata shows strings with singular/plural forms in *one* textbox in
>> >> its online editor, as in screenshot [1]. I am wondering what is the
>> >> right way to translate them? I tried to search through the zanata
>> >> docs, but cannot find it. Hope someone can point out for me. Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> [1] http://susepaste.org/83191113
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>> > Hi Alick,
>> >
>> > You'd need to actually check in the source if the mix of singular and
>> > plural form are handled.
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>> > Zanata does present the two alternatives when the code for the
>> > translated messages does handle it.
>> >
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>> Yes, I do see the two alternatives with two radio buttons. My question
>> is: How to translate both two strings in one entry box? Should I first
>> translate the first one, then press the second radio button, and then
>> translate the second one? The warning messages appear when I tried to
>> do these, so I am not quite sure what is the right thing to do...
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> If you translates string from the language with plural (e.g. English)
> to the language without plural (e.g. Chinese).
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> Normally you only need to translate the singular (the first) string.
> The radio buttons there are merely for copy from source string.

Well, I guess Chinese do have singular/plural differences in a sense.
For example,

Last week --> 上周

{0:d} weeks ago --> （数字）周前

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Regards,
Alick