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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Hebrew plural forms
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2023-10-06 22:35:34
Message-ID: 4782052.r9WtK5BE61 () xps15
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El divendres, 6 d'octubre de 2023, a les 22:33:21 (CEST), Yaron Shahrabani va 
escriure:
> Hey, if it's only relevant for new submissions that's fine, applying that
> to all current files will be very cumbersome.
> Is there a way to accept both?

All KDE files for a given language must have the same plural definition.

Cheers,
  Albert

> Yaron Shahrabani
> 
> <DevOps - Hebrew translator>
> 
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:17 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org> wrote:
> > El dijous, 5 d'octubre de 2023, a les 20:27:44 (CEST), Yaron Shahrabani va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Over the last couple of days I ran into a problem where the gettext
> > > files
> > > I've submitted caused all sorts of issues with Scripty.
> > > 
> > > KDE is still using the old plural form for Hebrew (2 cases):
> > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n"
> > > 
> > > Several years ago this formula was changed to reflect some rare cases in
> > > Hebrew.
> > > The new official formula is:
> > > "Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; plural=(n == 1) ? 0 : ((n == 2) ? 1 : ((n >
> > > 10
> > > && n % 10 == 0) ? 2 : 3));\n"
> > 
> > > This is documented here:
> > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/cldr-aux/charts/22/supplemental/language_plura
> > l_> 
> > > rules.html
> > > 
> > > I've been using this formula for several years now.
> > > Some other projects implementing it:
> > > Weblate, Transifex, Crowding, Poedit and many others.
> > > 
> > > Since the actual cases for using this formula are rare (time related
> > 
> > terms
> > 
> > > - hours, days, months, years, times) it's not always necessary to use it
> > 
> > so
> > 
> > > supporting the older formula in addition to the new one is definitely a
> > > good option for now.
> > 
> > We can change to the new formula, but that means invalidating all plurals
> > that
> > use the nplurals=2 formula, is that ok for you?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >   
> > > Thank you,
> > > Yaron Shahrabani
> > > 
> > > <DevOps - Hebrew translator>




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