Diaspora/Diaspora

Discussion commencée dimanche 18 mars 2012 21:45:08 UTC, avec 4 commentaires.

Olivier Traducteur en français ayant un droit de relecture total (incluant ses propres traductions) dimanche 18 mars 2012 21:45:08 UTC

Hello,
Why are there only 3 possibilities in the french plural segment : "one" -> n = 0..1 (!), zero and many? Wouldn't it be possible to refine this, as in english?
Jonne Haß Manager dimanche 18 mars 2012 22:04:23 UTC

The rule in the latest CLDR[1] even only uses one and other, so it should be possible to express everything you need.

[1] http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html
Olivier Traducteur en français ayant un droit de relecture total (incluant ses propres traductions) lundi 19 mars 2012 05:52:39 UTC

Sure, but what I don't understand is why there are 6 entries in english language and only 3 in french.
Jonne Haß Manager lundi 19 mars 2012 11:49:53 UTC

That has kinda historical reasons. Back at 99translations there was no automatic support for pluralization so we had to provide all possible keys in order to be compatible to all languages. With WebTranslateIt it's theoretically not necessary anymore, maybe I'll refactor that out one day (or someone else does).
Olivier Traducteur en français ayant un droit de relecture total (incluant ses propres traductions) lundi 19 mars 2012 17:35:43 UTC

Thanks for your explanation ; I do understand now ;-)