[Koha-translate] Sinhala: need to know how plurals work and to define it in the translation platform config

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@Sinhala speakers: how does plural work?
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Sinhala plural form: one, other

Plural forms:
one, other
one, two, other
one, few, other
one, few, many, other
one, two, few, other
one, two, few, many, other
zero, one, other
zero, one, two, few, many, other
other

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------- Original Message -------
On Monday, June 27th, 2022 at 9:28 PM, Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor at tuxayo.net> wrote:


> Hi,
>
> When releasing the latest Koha in the 21.05.x series, an automated check
> complains about nplurals not being defined.
>
> in si-messages-js.po
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"
> note: Plural-Forms seems to be only in this file and not in master, it's
> in 21.05.x branch.
>
> @Sinhala speakers: how does plural work?
> How many forms are there and what are the rules?
> For example some languages have sigular and three plurals.
> With the 1st plural form being used when there are two elements.
> With the 2nd plural form being used when there are between 3 and 5 elements.
> With the 3rd plural form being used when there are between 5 and more
> elements.
>
> @Bernardo maybe there is somewhere already the info for .po file for
> Sinhala?
> Or maybe we do like the other files and Koha branches where the
> Plural-Forms head isn't there? But how like plural translations work then?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Victor Grousset/tuxayo