Weblate and lupdate disagree about Turkish plurals

[rubdos]

Describe the issue

Weblate seems to have a singular and plural form for %n-style translations, while lupdate wants to remove these:

$ lupdate qml/ -noobsolete -ts translations/*.ts
Removed plural forms as the target language has less forms.
If this sounds wrong, possibly the target language is not set or recognized.

Example on Weblate:

https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/whisperfish/whisperfish-application/tr/?offset=1&q=whisperfish-message-action-resend&sort_by=-priority%2Cposition&checksum=

I don't know Turkish, so I am definitely not qualified to decide on this. Since I regularly run lupdate on the translations to update the line numbers and context, and insert new trId's (in fact, I run it in CI), it would be great if Weblate and lupdate agreed on this.

Finally, I would like to note that all plural forms that I got from my Turkish translator were the same as the singular, except for one:

Plural translations deleted by `lupdate` that have the same text as their singulars

```diff diff --git a/translations/harbour-whisperfish-tr.ts b/translations/harbour-whisperfish-tr.ts index 95763d9..5ae2998 100644 --- a/translations/harbour-whisperfish-tr.ts +++ b/translations/harbour-whisperfish-tr.ts @@ -286,7 +286,6 @@ Remorse: *locally* deleted one or multiple message (past tense) Yerel olarak silinen %n mesaj - Yerel olarak silinen %n mesaj @@ -1121,7 +1120,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Number of attachments currently selected for sending %n ek - %n ek @@ -1148,7 +1146,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Label hinting at more attachments than are currently shown. Read as "and %n more". +%n - +%n @@ -1158,7 +1155,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Note if some message attachments are hidden instead of being shown inline ve %n tane daha - ve %n tane daha @@ -1342,7 +1338,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Info label shown while selecting messages %n mesaj seçildi - %n mesaj seçildi @@ -1351,7 +1346,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Message action description, shown if one or more messages are selected Seçimi temizle - Seçimi temizle @@ -1361,7 +1355,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Message action description %n mesajı kopyala - %n mesajı kopyala @@ -1377,7 +1370,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Message action description Yerel olarak %n mesajı sil - Yerel olarak %n mesajı sil @@ -1387,7 +1379,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Message action description Tümü için %n mesajı sil - Tümü için %n mesajı sil @@ -1396,7 +1387,6 @@ Settings page share contacts Message action description Başarısız mesajı yeniden göndermeyi dene - Başarısız mesajları yeniden göndermeyi dene ```

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Have a project with a %n-style numerusform.
2. Translate the plural form in Weblate Turkish
3. Sync with git
4. Run lupdate, e.g. lupdate qml/ -noobsolete -ts translations/*.ts and see the diff

Expected behavior

Either Weblate should not provide a plural, or this is a lupdate bug and lupdate should not delete the plural form.

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Exception traceback

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How do you run Weblate?

weblate.org service

Weblate versions

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Weblate deploy checks

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Additional context

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[github-actions]

The issue you've reported needs to be addressed in the translate-toolkit. Please file the issue there, and include links to any relevant specifications about the formats (if applicable).

[nijel]

Duplicate of translate/translate#786