RE: [xliff] Plural forms and XLIFF

[Steven R Loomis <srloomis@us.ibm.com>]

ChoiceFormat, although designed for this purpose, has been found to be inadequate for plural formats in many languages.  French is not handled easily, much less Russian or Arabic. See the CLDR plural data on different languages here, particularly at the bottom of the page:
http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html 

I have an item in the feature list to work on this as well.

Steven

"Rodolfo M. Raya" ---01/10/2012 09:00:32 AM---Hi Yves,   The example you gave is not good for considering plural forms. It is actually an example

From: "Rodolfo M. Raya" <rmraya@maxprograms.com>
To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org,
Date: 01/10/2012 09:00 AM
Subject: RE: [xliff] Plural forms and XLIFF
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Hi Yves,
 
The example you gave is not good for considering plural forms. It is actually an example of text with inline tags containing subflows that should be sent to their own units/segments. In this particular case, the separated entries might need some attributes with context information.
Plural forms in PO files have separate targets for each count value. This means that we have to deal with one source with many targets. This is a situation not contemplated yet in the schema draft or the elements defined so far. 
 
Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M. Raya 
Maxprograms http://www.maxprograms.com

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Subject: [xliff] Plural forms and XLIFF
From: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
Date: Tue, January 10, 2012 2:37 pm
To: <xliff@lists.oasis-open.org>

Hi all,

During today's Inline Codes SC call the topic of how to represent plural form came up.

For example how we would extract the following java string:

"There {0,choice,0#are no files|1#is one file|1"

Since this is not only involving the inline code, we decided to bring that topic to the TC level.

We have some existing work done on this in the PO representation guide (http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/xliff-profile-po/xliff-profile-po-1.2-cd02.html#s.detailed_mapping.tu)

And we have also an item in the wiki:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/XLIFF2.0/Feature/Plural%20Entries

This is not an urgent topic, but it would help the SC if we had some ideas on how this could affect inline codes.

Thanks for any input,
-yves




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