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From: | Maryam Aly |
Subject: | Re: [bug-gettext] Adding More Languages to the Plural Manual |
Date: | Mon, 9 Feb 2015 09:55:55 -0500 |
Hello,
Maryam Aly <address@hidden> writes:
> I was looking at the section on plurals, and I noticed that a few of
> the languages that we care about aren't listed in the plurals manual.
>
> I wanted to give the rules for these languages to help future users
> who also need to translate in these languages.
Thanks for reporting that.
> Arabic, like Gaeilge, has 3 forms where 1 and 2 are special-cased.
I'm no expert in linguistics, but according to the existing *.po
files[1] and information on CLDR[2], Arabic seems to be a bit more
complex (it has six forms).
> Bahasa Indonesian, like English, has 2 forms, where 1 is
> special-cased.
>
> Thai, like Japanese and Korean, has only one form.
I'm attaching a tentative patch to the documentation. Corrections and
improvements would be appreciated.
Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno
Footnotes:
[1] https://l10n.gnome.org/POT/gdm.master/gdm.master.ar.po
[2] http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html#ar
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