[bug #66510] Add --prefer-cldr option to msginit

[Michele Locati]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #66510 (group gettext):


> Also, how would she know that she needs to use this extra option? She runs
> msginit once; the result looks fine; why try an extra command-line option? 

If I run msginit and I expect that Italian has 3 plural rules (as per CLDR
rules), but in the po we only have 2: that won't look good to me.

So I'd check what may be wrong, and see that I can force using the CLDR rules
with this new --prefer-cldr option.

> I believe that msginit should prepare the translator's work as best as it
> can

What's the best? For example, the new CLDR rules define 3 plural forms for
Italian (and French, Portuguese, Spanish and a few more).

For example:

one: "1 pagina"
many: "1,000,000 di pagine"
other: "2 pagine"

But historically, we had just 2 plural forms:

one: "1 pagina"
other: "2 pagine"

If I'd like to use the new CLDR definition, I'd prefer 3 plural forms.
If I'd like to use the historical syntax, I'd prefer 2 plural forms.

If we have to decide a single "best" approach: which one? Who will decide it?
Why?


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