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Proper way to display ordinal numbers #359
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If the results are as you describe also with the example that's in the docs, then I believe you've found a bug with the Python implementation, rather than a spec bug.
Here’s what the python implementation does with the docs example:
> cat en/test.ftl your-rank = { NUMBER($pos, type: "ordinal") -> [1] You finished first! [one] You finished {$pos}st [two] You finished {$pos}nd [few] You finished {$pos}rd *[other] You finished {$pos}th } > test() { python3 -c "from fluent.runtime import FluentLocalization as Loc, FluentResourceLoader as Load print(Loc(['en'], ['test.ftl'], Load('{locale}')).format_value('your-rank', {'pos': $1}))" } > test 1 You finished 1th > test 2 You finished 2th > test 5 You finished 5th > test 21 You finished 21thI’ve just checked that the js implementation produces the expected strings first/2nd/5th/21st, so I’ll open a bug over on the python implementation.
Reacted by Caleb MaclennanFollow-up at issue projectfluent/python-fluent#192 and PR projectfluent/python-fluent#193
The example given at the end of https://projectfluent.org/fluent/guide/selectors.html doesn't appear to work on the playground
The docs give the following example:
But it seems
type: "ordinal"is not recognised. Even when ignoring the CLDR plural categories and changing the selector for exact matches we are limited:So what is the option to properly display irregular ordinals (X1st, X2nd, X3rd)? Is there a number format for ordinals? Is there a way to perform a calculation on the selector (here
$pos > 20 + $pos % 10could do but this will be locale-specific)? Or is my only option to enumerate them all?