#5997: Pluralization support too limited
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Component: Internationalization
Version: SVN | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
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Django's pluralization support is fine for English, since we only have two
number forms, singular and plural. However, this is not the case for many
of the world's languages. This has the effect of translations unavoidably
being incorrect in certain languages where the number scheme is
incompatible with Django's. For a more-or-less comprehensive catalog of
these possible schemes, see
http://eiffelsoftware.origo.ethz.ch/index.php/Internationalization/plural_forms.
For example, http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Plural-
forms.html cites Rafal Maszkowski's illustration of this problem in
Polish:
{{{
In Polish we use e.g. plik (file) this way:
1 plik
2,3,4 pliki
5-21 plików
22-24 pliki
25-31 plików
and so on.
}}}
Each of those pages describes the issue quite well.
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