https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40251
--- Comment #14 from Huji <[email protected]> 2012-09-15 18:23:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #13) > It's arguable whether these languages should by default have two plural forms > or not. It is arguable whether the CLDR representation of various modes of handling plurals is a fair and comprehensive or not. Based on [1], CLDR assumes there are only these modes: (a) to have two forms, like English; (b) to have one form only; (c) to have more than two forms. The problem is, to have two forms, it doesn't have to be exactly like English (when determinants like "the" and counters like "two" both cause the subsequent noun to be pluralized). In other words, the (a) category above is not comprehensive enough to support languages like Persian or Mazani (while it supports English, Spanish or Turkish). You might argue this is a limitation of CLDR and should be reported there, not in this bug. I will counter-argue that the MediaWiki implications of it is that we can't adopt a standard which is not comprehensive, hence the point about reverting the change. [1] http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
