Diaspora/Diaspora

Discussion started 18 March, 2012 21:45, with 4 comments.

Olivier French Translator with all proofreading rights 18 March, 2012 21:45

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 18 March, 2012 22:04

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 French Translator with all proofreading rights 19 March, 2012 05:52

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

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 French Translator with all proofreading rights 19 March, 2012 17:35

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