[MTOS-translators] Polish translation - plural forms

[Andrey Serebryakov]

Hi,

When we did the translation into Russian, we had the same problem.
We've added in ru.pm this code:

sub quant {
    my($handle, $num, @forms) = @_;

    return $num if @forms == 0; # what should this mean?

    # Note that the formatting of $num is preserved.
    return( $handle->numf($num) . ' ' . $handle->numerate($num, @forms) );
    # Most human languages put the number phrase before the qualified phrase.
}

sub numerate {
    # return this lexical item in a form appropriate to this number
    my($handle, $num, @forms) = @_;
    my $s = ($num == 1);

    return '' unless @forms;

    return $forms[0] if $num =~ /^[02-9]*1$/;
    return $forms[0] if ( @forms == 1);

    return $forms[1] if $num =~ /^[02-9]*[234]$/;
    return $forms[1] if ( @forms == 1);
    return $forms[2];
}


In the Russian language has 3 forms:
 - 1 comment -> 1 комментарий
 - 2 comments -> 2 комментария
 - 5 comments -> 5 комментариев

Maybe you handy this code, by Alex Demidov <http://alexd.vinf.ru>.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Patryk Ściborek <patryk at sciborek.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>  I'm preparing Polish translation of MTOS. In Polish there are more than
>  two forms of nouns (singular and plural).  I've got a problem with
>  plural form of noun - it has 2 different forms - the first one is used
>  when the number ends with 2,3 or 4 (except 12,13,14) and the second one
>  is used in other cases.
>
>  Here is an example (look at last letter):
>  1 hour - 1 godzina (1 is usually skipped)
>  2 hours - 2 godziny
>  3 hours - 3 godziny
>  4 hours - 4 godziny
>  5 hours - 5 godzin
>  6 hours - 6 godzin
>  ...
>  21 hours - 21 godzin
>  22 hours - 22 godziny
>  23 hours - 23 godziny
>  24 hours - 24 godziny
>  25 hours - 25 godzin
>  26 hours - 26 godzin
>  ...
>  31 hours - 31 godzin
>  32 hours - 32 godziny
>  33 hours - 33 godziny
>  34 hours - 34 godziny
>  35 hours - 35 godzin
>  ...
>
>  Many different languages have similar problem. GNU gettext project made
>  special functions for this. Details (including rules for many languages)
>  are here:
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Plural-forms
>
>  What should I do with this? Could you give me any advice?
>
>  Best regards,
>  Patryk Sciborek



-- 
Andrey Serebryakov