[i18n] Dashboard -- My Tasks

[driusan]

This builds on #9747 to add support for translating the "My Tasks" widgets on the LORIS dashboard. In the current code, an "s" is hardcoded to be added when count > 1, which doesn't work for other languages.

The signature had to be updated to include a singular and plural label, as well as the text domain that the labels come from, since they come from the module providing the widget and not the dashboard. (The dngettext call also could not be done in the module, because the module doesn't have the count to know if it's plural.)

[ridz1208]

maybe this is your answer

No, not all languages have a clear and consistent distinction between singular and plural forms. While many languages, like English, have distinct singular and plural forms for nouns, some languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, rely on context to indicate whether a noun refers to one or multiple entities. 

[driusan]

No, that's the source of my confusion. It should be the same and "問題" is, but the machine translation of the "Your assigned" part is completely different based on if "issues" is singular or plural in the original English.

[driusan]

neither @ridz1208 nor I like this. One proposed change is passing something like:

class TranslatableString {
     function __construct(public readonly string $singular, public readonly string $plural, public readonly string  $textdomain) {}
    public function getPlural(int $n) : string { return dngettext($this->textdomain, $this->singular, $this->plural, $n); }
    public function __toString() : string { return dgettext($this->textdomain, $this->singular); }
}

instead of many parameters.