# Locale fallback to English doesn't work for pluralized strings

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [8월 25, 2016, 7:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211 "2016-08-25T19:04:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [8월 25, 2016, 7:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211/1 "2016-08-25T19:04:39Z")

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The fallback to English doesn’t work for pluralized strings when the language uses different pluralization rules than English.

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-v1-7-0-beta2-5-bug-in-user-cards/48676/6](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-v1-7-0-beta2-5-bug-in-user-cards/48676/6)

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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2017, 2:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211/2 "2017-02-24T14:30:14Z")

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@zogstrip Did you by any chance fix this issue with your latest work on i18n? 😉  
I didn’t have the time to test it yet.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2017, 2:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211/3 "2017-02-24T14:40:40Z")

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I am pretty sure he did! 😌

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2017, 3:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211/5 "2017-02-24T15:36:36Z")

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2월 28, 2017, 9:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-fallback-to-english-doesnt-work-for-pluralized-strings/49211/6 "2017-02-28T09:03:44Z")

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This was a use case I overlooked. Thanks @gerhard for mentioning this 👍

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5738253998d7cb66d035579c13e2ee33b0bdcb25](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5738253998d7cb66d035579c13e2ee33b0bdcb25)