474862 - Create plural rule for Icelandic

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect)

Description

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

I am the localizer for the Icelandic language on Mozilla. When I started localizing I choose plural rule #3 from this list:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localization_and_Plurals

because it was the closest rule to plural rules in my language, but it actually
includes an extra plural form (for 0) that isn't needed because in Icelandic there are only two plural rules.

The Plural rule for Icelandic is the following:

ends in 1, not 11: 1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91, 101, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, 201, 221, 231, 241, 251, 261, 271, 281, 291, …
everything else: 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, …

Is it possible to create a new plural rule for Icelandic so that the unnecessary translation for 0 isn't needed?

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: v1

Comment 2

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Kristjan:

Does it mean that algorithm like this matches all cases:

if (num%10==1 && num%100!=11)
    #singular
else
    #plural

?

Comment 3

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

Yes this algorithm would match all cases.

Comment 4

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Comment on attachment 368321 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

r+

Comment 5

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ac9deb7fd0c8

Landed on trunk.. do we want this for 3.5? It's not super critical, but when you use this on trunk, you'll need to update the plural strings to use 2 forms instead of 3.

Comment 6

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

Well as you say it's not critical since I can use the 3 forms with same results. But it would be nice to have it on 3.5 so that I can make the plural changes sooner than later.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Comment on attachment 368321 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

a191=beltzner

Comment 8

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/5859ab29dd56