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Impossible to translate to Romanian #270
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I was checking out the package to use it in a project. I'd need to translate it to Romanian, however a summary look reveals that would be a challenging task. For example the ordinal seems to make a map of suffixes for numbers 0-9, but that doesn't work in Romanian:
- 0th
- to my knowledge doesn't exist, but maaaybe among friends you could say "al 0-lea" (m); maybe; no (f) though;
- 1st
- "prima" (f); "primul" (m);
- 2nd
- "a 2-a" (f); "al 2-lea" (m);
- 3rd
- "a 3-a" (f); "al 3-lea" (m);
- 23rd
- "a 23-a" (f); "al 23-lea" (m).
So to give it a chance to translate at least the possible strings, they would need to interpolate the value.
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alexei commentedon Oct 19, 2025
For the record, see how Django does it:
https://github.com/django/django/blob/d506e4a52847ed4fb80754175d76b6b83ff90929/django/contrib/humanize/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/django.po#L29-L82
hugovk commentedon Oct 20, 2025
Thanks for the report, would you like to propose a fix?
alexei commentedon Sep 18, 2026
@hugovk I moved on from this project and I postponed getting back to you until I forgot about it.
I saw #331 and #361 and to me they look like hacks that avoid the problem. I think Django does it right, however including the placeholder in all strings might be quite a sizeable change and you need to decide whether you'd accept that.
hugovk commentedon Sep 18, 2026
Thanks for letting me know about #331 and #361, glad we didn't merge them :) Let's keep this open, if someone wants to look into doing it the Django way we can evaluate it then.
alexei commentedon Sep 18, 2026
@hugovk when I said the changeset would be quite sizeable, I meant #403
alexei commentedon Sep 18, 2026
I added Romanian translations in https://github.com/alexei/humanize/tree/add-romanian-translation but it looks like I can't stack them on top of #403 in this repo. I'm gonna stop and wait for that one.
Add Romanian translation (ro, ro_RO, ro_MD)