Re: Localization and plural rules revisited

FROM : Gary L. Wade
DATE : Tue May 20 22:40:32 2008

>On May 20, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Peter Edberg wrote:
>

>> CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) has some draft data on plural 
>> forms for various languages. See
>> <http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html

>
>> > for specific rules
>> and
>> <http://unicode.org/draft/reports/tr35/

>> tr35.html#Language_Plural_Rules> for background info.
>
>
>These are by far the best references I've seen to date.  Thanks!  Very 
>interesting that Ukrainian has a special rule for fractional values 
>vs. integers.
>


Well, keep in mind that English also has a "special rule" for fractions if they're written in textual form: "half an apple" vs. "0.5 apples".  If you REALLY want to get localized, look at the ability to write out textual forms of numbers within ICU.

http://icu.sourceforge.net/apiref/icu4c/classRuleBasedNumberFormat.html