Right, GitHub is a better place for this. Thanks for the tip!

On Monday, 15 August 2022 at 18:21:50 UTC+3 [email protected] wrote:

> There was a recent discussion in one of the OSM Slack channels, where user 
> `1ec5` posted:
>
> My quixotic quest to get the software industry to recognize plurals in 
>> Vietnamese has led to a bunch of projects maintaining ostensibly the same 
>> plural rules in separate tables, most recently Launchpad 
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1976309> and gettext 
>> <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62876>. Some of these projects 
>> are playing chicken w/ the others.
>
>  
>
>> There is some risk that application projects should be aware of: once 
>> CLDR corrects the issue and the fix is deployed, new versions of major 
>> operating systems such as macOS, iOS, and Android will be incompatible w/ 
>> translation management systems that do not use CLDR, such as Launchpad and 
>> poeditor. This may lead applications to crash 
>> <https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/1550> on these platforms, 
>> as was seen in Arabic and Czech several years ago, or at least trigger 
>> linter 
>> warnings <https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/7520> that are 
>> impossible to fix. (Transifex, Translatewiki.net, Translate Toolkit, and 
>> Weblate use CLDR, so they would be in good shape.)
>
>
> (I'm not fully conversant with the issues, but including this information 
> might be able to help the OSMand developers.) 
>

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