Re: Plural-Forms header

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

On Yaum al-Jumma 05 Jumaada al-Thaani 1425 07:22 pm, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting 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.
>
> Hmmm, in French zero has one rule. Zero uses singulard : "0 fichier"

I am sorry if I seem silly to disagree here ;). I believe in French it's: n'y 
a pas de fichiers

What do you use for -1 (negative numbers)? ;) We say for zero: no files. 
Seriously, can you give me a message that really takes the argument zero. Just 
one example so we take it more serious. If it's not there, then we can skip 
it. Otherwise, we difine a distinct state for it.

> Arabic should really have a rule. After all, you guys are people who
> invented zero, aren't you ? :-)

We are bigger than this ;) Just kidding.

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