Hebrew plural forms

[Yaron Shahrabani]

Hey, if it's only relevant for new submissions that's fine, applying that
to all current files will be very cumbersome.
Is there a way to accept both?
Yaron Shahrabani

<DevOps - Hebrew translator>



On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 11:17 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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