[Kbabel] Adding Arabic to Automatic Detection of Plural Forms

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Hi!

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Isam Bayazidi wrote:

> It does the trick .. Now Kbabel will automatically detect the number of Plural 
> Forms for Arabic .. thanks .. I suppose that it will be merged to the main 
> tree soon ..

Commited.

> Now anther probelm related to Plural Forms rise:
> - Strings with Plural Forms had been always detected as Faulty in terms of 
> Arguments Check .. As you know with Plural Forms you will repeat arguments 
> for every plural form:
> "_n: %1 of 1 Image loaded.\n
> %1 of %n Images loaded..."
> 
> In it's translation for Arabic the %n will be repeated 2 times, while %1 will 
> be repeated 4 times ( no need to go through details of the plural forms of 
> Arabic) .. and I suppose that the case could be the same for other languages 
> ..
>
> a Simple thing to do is to bypass Plural Forms Strings when doing the 
> Arguments Check .. as they do not comply to 1:1 ratio of arguments between 
> original string and translated string .. and at the same time it is not 
> always 1:1*n ( while n is the number of plural forms for the language) 
> specially for the argument %n that does not necessarily repeat ..

Too bad :-(( It seems like we should add an option to ignore the 
plural forms in checks.

Stanislav