Re: Nepali plural forms

["Pawan Chitrakar" <pawan nplinux org>]

Thanks a lot,

i guess it is regular expression.

we have to find one for nepali.

thanks once again

> tor 2004-06-10 klockan 15.06 skrev Pawan Chitrakar:
>> Thanks for everything.
>>
>> hope we will make it complete (DEVELOPERLIB & DESKTOP) translation for
>> 2.8.
>>
>> and i am asking you a small favour coz i couldn't understand and find
>> much about the plural expression how am i supposed to define the
>> plural expression coz when i compile with plural expression it gives
>> error "INVALID PLURAL EXPRESSION" and i could not compile with
>> removing it.
>>
>> what do i have to do? plz advice
>
> (I'm sending this to the list, as it might be interesting to others, and
> others might be able to help.)
>
> You should fill in with a piece of C-style code that explains how
> plurals are used in your language, in this case Nepali.
>
> In Swedish, like in many western languages, there are only two forms of
> plural, "singular" and "plural", and the "plural" form is used whenever
> the number of items is not 1. When the number of items is 1, then the
> "singular" form is used. This can be expressed as:
>
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
>
> That's valid for Swedish.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know any Nepali, so I don't know how plurals are
> used in that language, so I don't know what plural form expression you
> should use.
> If you can explain how plurals are used in your language in words,
> perhaps someone else can can create an appropriate C-style Plural-Forms
> code for you, that you could then use.
>
>
> Christian




Pawan Chitrakar
Technical Dept.
Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
Patan Dhoka,
Nepal
http://www.mpp.org.np
Tel: 977-1-5521393