Re: Arabic plural forms issues

["Djihed Afifi" <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

Youssef, Abdulaziz,

Considering how the new plural form is different enough from the old
one that the old translations don't fit *at all* with the new one (we
have a new form for example for 2 etc), what's the purpose of
scripting change since they will always end up having to be tweaked by
hand anyway?

I propose leaving changing the files to the translators, to be done by
hand, because that has to be done anyway. Plus building a reliable
script that will do the work will consume much needed time and might
not yeild a satisfying result.

I've been thinking about this for some time and it just begged me to ask.

Djihed

On 29/07/06, Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <aalarfaj at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com> wrote:
> > >
> > > If I understand correctly, we are asking developers to use variable
> > > shuffling to avoid the segmentation fault. But is Arabic the only
> language
> > > that has plural forms that dont require a variable? If Arabic is not the
> > > only language, shouldn't variable shuffling be already in wide use when
> it
> > > comes to plural forms and applications that support them?
> > >
> >
> > No, it is us -the translators- who does the shuffling, as we are in
> > charge of delivering the strings. We could write %2$s instead of  %s
> > for example.
>
>
>
> Ah, well that simplifies things greatly. Thanks for the explanation. Our
> only concern now then is testing it for different implementations.
>
> Regards,
>
> Abdulaziz,
>
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