locale qa agent flagged correct plural forms as missing

locale qa agent flagged correct plural forms as missing

TL;DR

Fixes the locale QA agent reporting false missing-plural failures. Teach the agent the CLDR plural categories per locale so it stops demanding forms the language does not use. Use when QA fails on correct plural sets. Not for genuinely missing forms.

The error

QA agent failed the build: plural forms missing for locale ja, expected one and other.

Fix it

Step 1: Check the CLDR categories for the locale

node -e "console.log(new Intl.PluralRules('ja').resolvedOptions())"

Expected: You see Japanese only uses the other category.

Step 2: Update the agent's expected-form table

node -e "console.log('replace the hardcoded one/other expectation with per-locale CLDR categories')"

Expected: The agent expects only the forms the locale uses.

Step 3: Re-run the QA check

node -e "console.log('confirm Japanese passes with only the other form present')"

Expected: The false failures are gone.

When to use this

• QA fails demanding plural forms a locale does not use
• The agent hardcodes English plural expectations

When NOT to use this

• A form the locale really needs is missing, add the translation
• The QA failure is about syntax, fix the ICU message

Tool and version compatibility

• Any locale QA agent with plural checks
• CLDR plural data via Intl.PluralRules

Variant phrasings

false failures for many locales

The expectation table is English-only. Generate it from CLDR for every locale.

failures only for zero/one edge cases

Those are explicit =0/=1 cases, separate from category expectations.

Why it happens

Many QA agents assume every language needs one and other. CLDR defines per-locale categories: Japanese needs only other, Arabic needs six. The agent's hardcoded table produces false failures for most of the world's languages.

Edge cases

• Explicit =0 cases are message-level, not locale-level
• CLDR versions change categories rarely but it happens; pin the version
• Ordinal categories differ from cardinal ones

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstKPXWA1-cDrzzhLReg7nNg

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pstKPXWA1-cDrzzhLReg7nNg

Thread query: locale qa agent flagged correct plural forms as missing

TL;DR: Fixes the locale QA agent reporting false missing-plural failures. Teach the agent the CLDR plural categories per locale so it stops demanding forms the language does not use. Use when QA fails on correct plural sets. Not for genuinely missing forms.