Japanese plurals

[Mark Davis ☕️]

That's not our principle for the plural categories. In many languages the
contents of 'one' are already exactly 1.

If the language really *requires* a different message for "abc {0} def"
when {0} is "1" vs when {0} is "2", then we need two plural categories
where one of them contains 1 (at least) and the other contains 2 (at
least).

Mark




On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:41 PM Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:
>
>> The CLDR plural rules are intended for any instance where the change in a
>> number requires a change in a message; in some languages changes are
>> required in verbs, or in references. So it appears that this is an example
>> of where Japanese rules may require changes.
>>
>> The suggestion that Markus is recommending is a good workaround for the
>> issue that you have, but we should consider whether to change the plural
>> rules.
>>
>
> I would think that in most languages there is some special wording for
> exactly-number-1, like in both the English and Japanese examples in this
> thread.
> What you are suggesting amounts to making sure that the plural rules for
> every language have a plural keyword for that.
> I would rather we keep recommending =1.
>
> markus
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/cldr-users/attachments/20211201/11f240ee/attachment.htm>