[Mediawiki-l] PLural Transformation for Upper Sorbian

[Rotem Liss]

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Michael Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm preparing the LanguageHsb.php for Upper Sorbian and need a correctly
> working plural transformation in this file. I've already tested the
> solutions of other Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian,
> Slovenian, Croatian), but their requirements are some others.
> Upper Sorbian has following requirements:
> 
> 	Numeral		Form
> 	1		Singular
> 	2		Dual
> 	3, 4		Nominative plural
> 	0 and from 5	Genitive plural
> 
>  From the Slavic languages I tested, only Slovenian has still a dual. The
> tested solutions I modified don't work, they use the default form only.
> A differentiation doesn't happen.
> 
> I hope you can help me.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Wolf
> 

If I understood the question, adding the function
LanguageHsb::convertPlural will do. I think this code should work:

    /**
     * Gets a number and uses the suited form of the word.
     *
     * @param integer the number of items
     * @param string the first form (singular)
     * @param string the second form (genetive plural ? 0 and from 5)
     * @param string the third form (dual ? 2)
     * @param string the fourth form (nominative plural ? 3 and 4)
     *
     * @return string of the suited form of word
     */
    public function convertPlural( $count, $w1, $w2, $w3, $w4 ) {
        if ( $count == '1' ) {
            return $w1;
        } elseif ( $count == '2' ) {
            return $w3;
        } elseif ( $count == '3' || $count == '4' ) {
            return $w4;
        } else {
            return $w2;
        }
    }

It will make it possible to specify four forms in {{plural:}}: first is
singular, second is genetive plural, third is dual, fourth is nominative
plural. You can add this code to the file.

Also, please look at the new structure of the language files.

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