From kde-i18n-doc  Mon Apr 02 21:40:43 2001
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:40:43 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: plural handling
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Roman Maurer wrote:
> 
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >
> > Four forms, special case for one and all numbers ending in 2, 3, or 4
> >      The header entry would look like this:
> >
> >           Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; \
> >                         plural=n==1 ? 0 : \
> >                                n%10==2 ? 1 : n%10==3 || n%10==4 ? 2 : 3;
> >
> >      Languages with this property include:
> >
> >     Slavic family
> >           Slovenian
> 
> I'm afraid that's not quite it for Slovenian.  Our language
> computes singular, dual or plural forms regarding to "mod 100",
> not "mod 10":
> 
> The same expression is for (BTW, "datoteka" means "file"):
> 
> n%100==1:
>         1 datoteka, 101 datoteka, 201 datoteka, ...
> 
> n%100==2:
>         2 datoteki, 102 datoteki, 202 datoteki, ...
> 
> n%100==3 or n%100==4:
>         3 datoteke, 4 datoteke, 103 datoteke, 1003 datoteke, ...
> 
> otherwise:
>         0 datotek, 5 datotek, 6 datotek, 10 datotek,
>         11 datotek, 99 datotek, 100 datotek,
>         105 datotek, 1005 datotek, etc.

Thanks for all the input.

Greetings, Stephan

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