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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Hebrew plural forms
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2023-10-06 20:17:32
Message-ID: 67894521.qharpq8XOE () xps15
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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_plural_
> 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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