Re: Plural-Forms header

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Jumma 05 Jumaada al-Thaani 1425 11:48 am, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Denis Barbier (barbier at linuxfr dot org):
> > Your line makes 2nd and 3rd cases identical, it should be
> >   Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; plural=n%100==1 || n==0 ? 0 : n%100==2 ? 1 :
> > n%100>=3 && n%100<=10 ? 2 : 3;

Can any one point a real example when a zero is passed as an argument in an 
application. In Arabic zero has no rule. ;) so it's not correct to say zero 
files.

> > It is also not clear whether first case is right or should be n%100<=1

Does it make a difference, practically?

> IIRC, 100 does not drive singular but rather 4th form.
>
> Discussion restarted between Arabeyes people in order to find
> something appropriate. Seems that maybe 5 or even 6 plural forms could
> be needed..:-)

Well, if it's only 6 or even 8, the solution would be easy ;). Actually, there 
are no Arabic rules AFAIK for dealing with numbers when they are written in 
numbers. The rules we studied at school deal with writing the numbers in 
words. Things like One hundered and two but not 102. In the latter case, 
nothing can be accurate. Just let pray the number would never be something 
and one or something  and two ;)

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