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Out of curiosity I looked in the zh_*.po files in a number of projects and everywhere I saw only the formula nplurals=1; plural=0;. No one used the formula with singular and plural. This is a little surprising.

I believe it's the default setting for zh in Poedit. Chinese and Taiwanese do have some rare plural nouns. Mostly, we use number and different classifier for plural nouns. In practical, the measure words might be omitted. Using nplurals=2 in .po files is more precise, but not necessarily required.

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Looks like this is the bad entry:

msgid "writing sidecar file"
msgid_plural "writing %zu sidecar files"
msgstr[0] "寫入附屬檔案"
msgstr[1] "寫入 %zu 個附屬檔案"

My guess is that it should have been

msgid "writing sidecar file"
msgid_plural "writing %zu sidecar files"
msgstr[0] "寫入 %zu 個附屬檔案"

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I got it. It is the Plural-Forms setting.

Chinese or Taiwanese usually don't have plural nouns. The .po has a Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n setting. But this one, I saw it has different content in msgid_plural and msgid. That's why I use msgstr[0] and msgstr[1].

It's my fault, will use Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n and add all other msgstr[1] strings.

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But this one, I saw it has different content in msgid_plural and msgid

Yes, in the original (in English), they should be different, because this corresponds to the rules of the English language. But this does not matter for translation, if the target language does not have a plural form, then the translation will be the same.

The main question is the rules of the language into which we translate. If you write that Chinese or Taiwanese don't have plural nouns, then you need to use the formula Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0

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The main question is the rules of the language into which we translate. If you write that Chinese or Taiwanese don't have plural nouns, then you need to use the formula Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0

Yes, that's the way in former zh-TW.po files.

But sometimes we will use different article in front of nouns to express singular and plural forms. It depends on the sentence. I think use plural independent setting will make it more solid. Even in most cases the msgstr[1] will be the same with msgstr[0].

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But sometimes we will use different article in front of nouns to express singular and plural forms. It depends on the sentence.

Interesting! Got it. I even found good explanation: https://medium.com/@chinesewithnora/the-singular-world-of-plurals-in-chinese-c6307a5cbc25

I think use plural independent setting will make it more solid.

Out of curiosity I looked in the zh_*.po files in a number of projects and everywhere I saw only the formula nplurals=1; plural=0;. No one used the formula with singular and plural. This is a little surprising.

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