Locale bringup and barriers for entry

[Marcel Schneider via CLDR-Users]

On 26/09/18 16:38 Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:

[quote]

> This is due to a misunderstanding of how ordinal works. It is just like cardinal (plural)
> in that the translator is responsible for the text, and accounting for gender.
> The examples given are thus irrelevant. 

[examples]

> To reiterate, the handling of grammatical inflections other than plurals/ordinals
> is outside the current scope of CLDR, […]

Thank you for this clarification.

I’ll take away that CLDR gives hints about which numbers require special handling when 
being part of messages, but not about how messages are to be inflected depending on 
the current value of the number placeholder.

Is the label “Minimal Pairs” misleading?

Eg Dutch has ordinals one-fits-all, only "other", and a single minimal pair: “Neem de 15e afslag rechts.”

Beside, I wonder whether the -e should be superscript: 'Neem de 15ᵉ afslag rechts.'


Regards,

Marcel