more info about plural forms

[Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>]

Here is more info about plural forms, that was reported to me or to
bug-glibc-manual over time from various people.


2003-04-27  Bruno Haible  <bruno at clisp dot org>

	* manual/message.texi (Advanced gettext functions): Add information
	about Korean, Portuguese, Latvian. Gaeilge is also known as Irish.
	Add section about Lithuanian, reported by Ricardas Cepas
	<rch at richard dot eu dot org>.
	Add information about Croatian.
	Ukrainian is like Russian, reported by Andy Rysin <arysin at yahoo dot com>.
	Remove remark about continuation lines that is not true for PO files.
	Fix formula for Slovenian, reported by Roman Maurer
	<roman dot maurer at amis dot net>.

--- glibc-20030425.orig/manual/message.texi	Thu Jul 25 13:18:04 2002
+++ glibc-20030425/manual/message.texi	Sun Apr 27 14:48:40 2003
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@
 @item Finno-Ugric family
 Hungarian
 @item Asian family
-Japanese
+Japanese, Korean
 @item Turkic/Altaic family
 Turkish
 @end table
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@
 @item Semitic family
 Hebrew
 @item Romance family
-Italian, Spanish
+Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
 @item Artificial
 Esperanto
 @end table
@@ -1282,7 +1282,22 @@
 
 @table @asis
 @item Romanic family
-French
+French, Brazilian Portuguese
+ at end table
+
+ at item Three forms, special case for zero
+The header entry would be:
+
+ at smallexample
+Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n != 0 ? 1 : 2;
+ at end smallexample
+
+ at noindent
+Languages with this property include:
+
+ at table @asis
+ at item Baltic family
+Latvian
 @end table
 
 @item Three forms, special cases for one and two
@@ -1297,7 +1312,24 @@
 
 @table @asis
 @item Celtic
-Gaeilge
+Gaeilge (Irish)
+ at end table
+
+ at item Three forms, special case for numbers ending in 1[2-9]
+The header entry would look like this:
+
+ at smallexample
+Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \
+    plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \
+           n%10>=2 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2;
+ at end smallexample
+
+ at noindent
+Languages with this property include:
+
+ at table @asis
+ at item Baltic family
+Lithuanian
 @end table
 
 @item Three forms, special cases for numbers ending in 1 and 2, 3, 4, except those ending in 1[1-4]
@@ -1313,7 +1345,7 @@
 
 @table @asis
 @item Slavic family
-Czech, Russian
+Croatian, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian
 @end table
 
 @item Three forms, special cases for 1 and 2, 3, 4
@@ -1341,8 +1373,6 @@
            n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ? 1 : 2;
 @end smallexample
 
-(Continuation in the next line is possible.)
-
 @noindent
 Languages with this property include:
 
@@ -1351,12 +1381,12 @@
 Polish
 @end table
 
- at item Four forms, special case for one and all numbers ending in 2, 3, or 4
+ at item Four forms, special case for one and all numbers ending in 02, 03, or 04
 The header entry would look like this:
 
 @smallexample
 Plural-Forms: nplurals=4; \
-    plural=n==1 ? 0 : n%10==2 ? 1 : n%10==3 || n%10==4 ? 2 : 3;
+    plural=n%100==1 ? 0 : n%100==2 ? 1 : n%100==3 || n%100==4 ? 2 : 3;
 @end smallexample
 
 @noindent