Description: If you select one column, the status bar shows 1 columns. Note the incorrect plural. Same for rows. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select one column 2. Enable status bar display 3. Actual Results: 1 columns selected Expected Results: 1 column selected Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: I see this grammar error in many products and websites, seemingly so often that it looks like deemed acceptable. But it is a grammar error and I do not expect this to be done by design. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
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Fighting l10n for plurals always has diminishing returns. And IIUC it is "by design" to leave it in the plural form to facilitate l10n string translation cross platform. @Eike, Kohei--you OK with the WONTFIX?
Until we use a message framework that fully supports plurals in all languages and forms (there are languages that distinguish even between 1, 2, 3 or more) we'll have to use one form that covers all. The only thing we could do is to use the string "Y row(s), X column(s) selected" and hope that it translates well to other languages. I could bet there will be at least one language where that wouldn't fit either. And it eats 4 more characters on the precious space of the status bar..
BTW, Caolán is implementing proper Gettext support, which will allow us to use plural forms.