[TYPO3-core] RFC: #9860: Fileadmin: New folders: Singular and plural are the same ("folders")

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Stefano Kowalke wrote:
>> Problem:
>> In the filelist module there is a drowdown, where you could choose how many
>> folders you want create, there are no separation between singular and
>> plural:
>> 1 Folders
>> 2 Folders
>> 3 Folders
>> ...
>>
>>
>> Solution:
>> Showing only 'Folder' for the first entry. 
> 
> This does not work well for some languages either. For example in
> Russian there are two forms for "folders" depending on the
> preceeding number:
> 
> 1 каталог
> 
> 2 каталог*а*
> 3 каталог*а*
> 4 каталог*а*
> 
> 5 каталого*в*
> 6 каталого*в*
> (and so on)
> 
> 21 каталог
> 
> 22 каталог*а*
> 23 каталог*а*
> 24 каталог*а*
> 
> 25 каталого*в*
> 26 каталого*в*
> (and so on)
> 
> 100 каталого*в*
> 
> I guess same will be in some other languages (Ukranian, Belorussian,
> Serbian???, Bulgarian???).
> 
> What about dropping "folder" and "folders" completely, leaving only
> numbers and adding a new label that sounds like "Number of folders
> to create:"? This will look correctly in all languages. Also it will
> let people to focus on numbers (no need to read "folders" word in
> the select box).
> 

+1 - i wasn't aware of these forms too.

vg Steffen