Arabic translators: important news
Djihed Afifi
djihedlists at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 27 20:28:43 UTC 2008
Hello,
That is brillilant Matthew, thank you for the hard work.
Djihed
في خ، 27-03-2008 عند 19:55 +0000 ، كتب Matthew Revell:
> Hello,
>
> Arabic translators: important news
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> In a few hours time, all Arabic translations in Launchpad
> that have plural forms will be marked as "Needs review".
>
> This is because we're introducing support for up to six
> plural forms in our new release, Launchpad 1.2.3.
>
> Up until this release, Launchpad has supported only four
> plural forms. Arabic has six different forms. Naturally,
> people have tried to work around this limitation. The new
> formula we've chosen supports all six Arabic plural forms
> but there was no safe way to convert existing plural
> translations automatically.
>
> The new Arabic plurals formula is:
>
> n==0 ?
> 0 : n==1 ?
> 1 : n==2 ?
> 2 : n % 100 >= 3 && n % 100 <= 10 ?
> 3 : n % 100 >= 11 && n % 100 <= 99 ?
> 4 : 5
>
> This will show up on the Arabic translations information
> page - https://translations.launchpad.net/+languages/ar -
> once we've released Launchpad 1.2.3.
>
> If you have any questions, please join us on launchpad-users or file
> a
> question at:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+addquestion
>
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