Update: That was a typo (stuff <> staff).

I wanted to use quant in the key for the lexicon so that _AUTO would work for english so I wrote following: 

package L10N;
use base qw(Locale::Maketext);
1;

package L10N::pl;
use Locale::Maketext;
use base qw(L10N);
%Lexicon = (
    "Foobar [quant,_1,staff]" => "Foobar [quant,_1,staf,stafow,zero st
+afu]\n",
    "Foobar [_1]" => "Foobar [quant,_1,staf,stafow,zero stafu]\n",
);
                                                                      
+ 1;

package Main;

my $lh = L10N->get_handle('pl') || die "Language?";
print $lh->maketext("Foobar [_1]", 2);
print $lh->maketext("Foobar [quant,_1,stuff]", 2);

__OUTPUT__
Foobar 2 stafow
maketext doesn't know how to say:
Foobar [quant,_1,stuff]
as needed at a1.txt line 20

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The first maketext shows that [_1] alone works. But when in the second one I use [quant,_1,stuff] it does not find it in the lexicon.

The L::M POD says: 

While you can use arbitrary unique IDs for lexicon keys (like "_min_la
+rger_max_error"), it is often useful for if an entry's key is itself 
+a valid value,

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Am I missing something here?

In reply to Locale::Maketext lexicon does not let use quant in the key by zby

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