diff --git a/po/README b/po/README index 88688f126..0ff0579e5 100644 --- a/po/README +++ b/po/README @@ -166,131 +166,8 @@ well, especially Last-Translator and PO-Revision-Date fields. -------------------- First set Plural-Forms: header (msgid "" at top of .po file) to some correct -value, depending on language. - -To help you in this, here is an excerpt from GNU gettext documentation: - -Only one form: - Some languages only require one single form. There is no distinction - between the singular and plural form. An appropriate header entry - would look like this: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0; - - Languages with this property include: - - Finno-Ugric family - Hungarian - Asian family - Japanese, Korean - Turkic/Altaic family - Turkish - -Two forms, singular used for one only: - This is the form used in most existing programs since it is what English - is using. A header entry would look like this: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1; - - (Note: this uses the feature of C expressions that boolean expressions - have to value zero or one.) - - Languages with this property include: - - Germanic family - Danish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Swedish - Finno-Ugric family - Estonian, Finnish - Latin/Greek family - Greek - Semitic family - Hebrew - Romanic family - Italian, Portuguese, Spanish - Artificial - Esperanto - -Two forms, singular used for zero and one: - Exceptional case in the language family. The header entry would be: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n>1; - - Languages with this property include: - - Romanic family - French, Brazilian Portuguese - -Three forms, special case for zero: - The header entry would be: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n != 0 ? 1 : 2; - - Languages with this property include: - - Baltic family - Latvian - -Three forms, special cases for one and two: - The header entry would be: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n==1 ? 0 : n==2 ? 1 : 2; - - Languages with this property include: - - Celtic - Gaeilge (Irish) - -Three forms, special case for numbers ending in 1[2-9]: - The header entry would look like this: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \ - plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \ - n%10>=2 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2; - - Languages with this property include: - - Baltic family - Lithuanian - -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 - -Three forms, special case for one and some numbers ending in 2, 3, or 4: - The header entry would look like this: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \ - plural=n==1 ? 0 : \ - n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2; - - Languages with this property include: - - Slavic family - Polish - -Four forms, special case for one and all numbers ending in 02, 03, or 04: - The header entry would look like this: - - Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; \ - plural=n%100==1 ? 0 : n%100==2 ? 1 : n%100==3 || n%100==4 ? 2 : 3; - - Languages with this property include: - - Slavic family - Slovenian - - -More info at http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext - +value, depending on language. See GNU gettext documentation for details, at +http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext Plural forms will appear like this in .po file: