Hebrew plural forms

Yaron Shahrabani sh.yaron at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 21:24:52 BST 2023


Yes, that totally makes sense, thank you :)
Yaron Shahrabani

<DevOps - Hebrew translator>



On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 11:24 PM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>
wrote:

> 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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