Re: [bug-gettext] Plural rule definitions

[Daiki Ueno]

Michele Locati <address@hidden> writes:

> But we have a problem here: CLDR data defines the plural rules for
> integers and for floats.  gettext only works with unsigned integers.
[...]
> That's why I created
> https://github.com/mlocati/cldr-to-gettext-plural-rules

Yes, I actually tried your tool before and read how it works out the
issue.  It looks reasonable to me that it prunes conditionals which
always evaluate to true/false.

> IMHO it can be used to statically generate the rules for all the
> languages (simply call "bin/export.sh gettext"), so that they can be
> included statically in gettext (making the "urlget" approach useless).

That's true if we can assume that gettext always includes the latest or
fixed information.  However, CLDR changes over time, and a user could
stick with an older gettext version which ships with a plural-table.c
generated from an older CLDR release.

> The approach that I proposed was meant to help programs like poedit.
> Having a standardized/structured way to represent plural forms (with a
> representative name like "one"/"few"/"many" and some example) can be
> helpful in such cases...

That makes sense.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno