Re: [bug-gettext] Adding More Languages to the Plural Manual

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello,

Maryam Aly <address@hidden> writes:

> I was looking at the section on plurals, and I noticed that a few of
> the languages that we care about aren't listed in the plurals manual.
>
> I wanted to give the rules for these languages to help future users
> who also need to translate in these languages.

Thanks for reporting that.

> Arabic, like Gaeilge, has 3 forms where 1 and 2 are special-cased.

I'm no expert in linguistics, but according to the existing *.po
files[1] and information on CLDR[2], Arabic seems to be a bit more
complex (it has six forms).

> Bahasa Indonesian, like English, has 2 forms, where 1 is
> special-cased.
>
> Thai, like Japanese and Korean, has only one form.

I'm attaching a tentative patch to the documentation.  Corrections and
improvements would be appreciated.

Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://l10n.gnome.org/POT/gdm.master/gdm.master.ar.po

[2]  
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html#ar

>From 4d4b79969f3dcede86557d3d85894ad7f8ff26b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:17:22 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document plural forms for arb, tha, and ind

* gettext.texi (Plural forms): Add Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, and
Thai.
Reported by Maryam Aly in:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-02/msg00012.html>.
---
 gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog    |  7 +++++++
 gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog
index edac431..7226dde 100644
--- a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2015-02-09  Daiki Ueno  <address@hidden>
+
+       * gettext.texi (Plural forms): Add Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, and
+       Thai.
+       Reported by Maryam Aly in:
+       <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-02/msg00012.html>.
+
 2015-02-03  Daiki Ueno  <address@hidden>
 
        * msgexec.texi, msgfilter.texi: Fix markup error caused by commit
diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi
index c0dc529..80dc461 100644
--- a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi
+++ b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi
@@ -6241,7 +6241,9 @@ Languages with this property include:
 @item Asian family
 Japanese, @c   122.1 million speakers
 Vietnamese, @c  68.6 million speakers
-Korean @c       66.3 million speakers
+Korean  @c      66.3 million speakers
address@hidden Tai-Kadai family
+Thai @c         20.4 million speakers
 @end table
 
 @item Two forms, singular used for one only
@@ -6279,6 +6281,8 @@ Finnish, @c      5.0 million speakers
 Estonian @c      1.0 million speakers
 @item Semitic family
 Hebrew @c        5.3 million speakers
address@hidden Austronesian family
+Bahasa Indonesian @c 23.2 million speakers
 @item Artificial
 Esperanto @c       2 million speakers
 @end table
@@ -6454,6 +6458,23 @@ Languages with this property include:
 @item Slavic family
 Slovenian @c   1.9 million speakers
 @end table
+
address@hidden Six forms, special cases for one, two, all numbers ending in 02, 
03, @dots{} 10, all numbers ending in 11 @dots{} 99, and others
+The header entry would look like this:
+
address@hidden
+Plural-Forms: nplurals=6; \
+    plural=n==0 ? 0 : n==1 ? 1 : n==2 ? 2 : n%100>=3 && n%100<=10 ? 3 \
+    : n%100>=11 ? 4 : 5;
address@hidden smallexample
+
address@hidden
+Languages with this property include:
+
address@hidden @asis
address@hidden Afroasiatic family
+Arabic @c    246.0 million speakers
address@hidden table
 @end table
 
 You might now ask, @code{ngettext} handles only numbers @var{n} of type
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