[bug #61248] plural_table missing formulas for many major languages

[Lauri Nurmi]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61248>

                 Summary: plural_table missing formulas for many major
languages
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: lanurmi
            Submitted on: Thu 30 Sep 2021 03:36:27 PM UTC
                Category: Plural forms
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

The plural_table in gettext-tools/src/plural-table.c is missing plural-form
formulas for some of the major languages of the world. Consequently, msginit
is unable to prefill .po files with the proper formula.

For instance, there is no entry for:
* Arabic (despite its formula being mentioned in Plural-Forms documentation)
* Bengali
* Chinese (any variant)
* Hindi
* Indonesian

I picked these languages from a list of top-10 most spoken languages in the
world; they are not in any particular order, and they surely aren't the only
languages worth adding to the table.

See also: the Gnome project has a list of languages and the formulas they are
using for each: https://l10n.gnome.org/languages/




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