Hebrew plural forms

Luigi Toscano luigi.toscano at tiscali.it
Wed Oct 18 21:24:09 BST 2023


Yaron Shahrabani ha scritto:
> I bet there is :)
> The new plural form will require some string modifications in addition to the
> header.
> 
> The current formula is as follows:
> [1 - 1] %d house
> [2 - !1] %d houses
> 
> The new formula is a bit more complex:
> [1 - 1] %d house
> [2 - 2] %d/two houses
> [3 - X%10 == 0 when X is larger than 10] %d house
> [4 - !1/!2] %d houses (matches the second form in the current formula)
> 
> So one option would be just breaking all the plural strings, the second would
> be copying the 2nd form to the 3rd and 4th (won't break the string but I'll
> need to fix it manually).
> I can try and think of a way to handle this completely automatically but I
> don't think it's worth the trouble.
> 
> So merely changing the form is not enough.

I think it was not mentioned, but would it make sense to change the definition
on the trunk_kf6 branch only, in order to avoid breakages with the Qt5/KF5
applications?

Ciao
-- 
Luigi


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