Re: [bug-gettext] [Patch] Plural forms for Portuguese

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eduardo,

You wrote:
> The documentation and file gettext-tools/src/plural-table.c mention that
> Brazilian Portuguese uses the singular form for 0 and 1, and plural for
> n>1. That's incorrect in that the singular form is only used for 1, 0
> uses the plural form just like English and many other languages.

Thanks for the note and the patch.

The information about the plural rule used for Brazilian Portuguese was
added in 2001, "with information from the translation teams":
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=1686bebbe8d7931c8a59e1bec79a189540765324

The translation team is where we take the information about plural forms,
because grammar books may be outdated and the opinion of individuals may
be biased.

Could you therefore please ask the Brazilian Portuguese translation team
(you find its email address in http://translationproject.org/team/index.html)
whether their majority opinion agrees with your statement?

Thanks.

Bruno