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Plural Support

Some languages need plural support for the count nouns. MediaWiki has patterns for the most of the languages and it is the only software I know which supports plural (and gender) fully. I am sure it is a pretty hard thing to do, at least for now.

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      • adentadent commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        pretty good solution has the GetText: Plurals defined as a math expression. E.g. Czech language has 3-4 plurals (1, 2-4, 5+, sometimes 0), defined like:

        n==1?1:((n>1 && n<5)?2:(n==0?4:3))

        means:
        1st form for n=1
        2nd form for n=2..4
        3rd form for n>=5
        4th form for n=0

      • LucasLucas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        This seems to be a classic internationalization issue, not something related directly with how translate.uservoice is setup.

        If the product was correctly internationalized, support for plurals would be already part of the strings.

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