Re: Plural forms for Slovak (SK) language

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Peter Slacik wrote:
> the definition of the plural forms field (10.2.5 Additional 
> functions for plural forms 
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_10.html#SEC150>).
> 
> I represent the Slovak language population and I'd like to suggest 
> different form of the "Plural-Forms:" definition for Slovak language.
> ...
> 
>     Three forms, special case for numbers one and 2, 3, 4
>         The header entry would look like this:
> 
> Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \
>     plural=n==1 ? 0 : \
>            n>=2 && n<=4 ? 1 : 2;
> 
>         Languages with this property include:
> 
>         Slavic family
>             Slovak

Thank you for your correction. This has been reported already and corrected
since gettext-0.13. Tools like msginit automatically insert the corrected
plural formula. The doc on www.gnu.org that you cite is unfortunately
somewhat older.

> I'm reading that:
> 
>     Three forms, special cases for numbers ending in 1 and 2, 3, 4,
>     except those ending in 1[1-4]
>         The header entry would look like this:
> 
> Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \
>     plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \
>            n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2;
> 
>         Languages with this property include:
> 
>         Slavic family
>             Croatian, Czech, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian 
> 
> I know that it's correct for e.g. the Czech language, but Slovak 
> language behaves differently.

Actually it has been reported that Czech now also has the same rule as
the simplified Slovak rule.

Thanks for your contribution!

Bruno