"day" and "days" often get localised using the system's language instead of the app language

[emanuele6]

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Affected version

0.27.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

My smartphone's main language is "Italian", but I have selected "English" as App Language in "Settings" -> "Content" -> "App language" -> "English".

Expected behavior

The words "day" and "days" should be displayed as "day" and "days" in the UI.

Actual behavior

"day" and "days" are often shown as "giorno" and "giorni" (i.e. "day" and "days" in Italian, the system's main language).
Sometimes they get displayed as "day" and "days" after you close/re-open the app or go to another app and come back to NewPipe, but not always.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Logs

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 13 / One UI Core 5.1

Affected device model

Samsung Galaxy A22 5G

Additional information

I have started noticing this problem since I started using NewPipe on this phone on which I am using Italian as system language, it was also happening in version 0.26.0.
It only occurs for "day" and "days" as far as I can tell.

[frop-qart]

Seems like the bug is not being caused by NewPipe itself but prettytime. Its localization for italian isn't correct.

[emanuele6]

What do you mean? How can that be the case?
The bug is that NewPipe uses the system language ("Italian") instead of the app language ("English") for "day"/"days" pretty much all the time.
It also happens pretty often that NewPipe will use the system language instead of the selected app language for the entire UI, not just "day"/days", when the app is reopened after being closed for a while.
There are no translation mistakes.

[frop-qart]

Prettytime is an external library that is used by NewPipe to localize upload dates. The problem is that there is a bug in prettytime that is causing the problems that you're describing. I'm writing a ticket to the people who made prettytime so that hopefully this issue is resolved.

[emanuele6]

A screenshot to show that the problem does not occur 100% of the times (here the only system language is "Italian", and the selected app langauge in NewPipe is "English")

I've now changed my smartphone's system languages so that "Finnish" is the only language, if I see that the word for "day"/"days" is not rendered in English, I will post a screenshot to show that this problem happens with not just Italian.

[emanuele6]

@frop-qart

Its localization for italian isn't correct.

This is what I have an issue with.

You said that the problem is with the library's Italian localisation, but the Italian localisation should not be used at all because I selected "English" in "Settings" -> "Content" -> "App Language".

[emanuele6]

And if I select Italian as app language, NewPipe will show "1 giorno fa"/"4 giorni fa", so the correct Italian translations for "1 day ago"/4 days ago", not "1 giorno ago"/"4 giorni ago".

I don't doubt that the issue could still be with the library, and not NewPipe directly, but I don't have evidence of that.
And I very much doubt that the problem will only occur if you have Italian as only system language as you are suggesting.

[opusforlife2]

Let's see if there's a response on that issue.

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[emanuele6]

What is the point of closing the issue if the bug wasn't fixed?

[opusforlife2]

Was giving it some time to see if the PrettyTime devs replied. Since they haven't, let's just keep this open. Maybe someone will come across this and wish to fix it themselves.