Thread:Support/On different plural systems

I made some research on the various plural systems used by projects in translatewiki.net. It compares plural rules between three main systems: MediaWiki, Gettext and CLDR (used by Ruby projects). The results are at page Plural/Comparison_of_plural_rules_in_various_databases. The most troubling part are the detailed reports after the overview. In the detailed part the plural rules are compared between all applicable systems. If there are differences, those are printed out. Can we reach out speakers of those languages to verify which ruleset (if any) is correct.

If we can sort those issues out, we can go further and try to get CLDR data as complete as possible, and have all other projects use CLDR definitions in way or another. We could for example provide extended list of plural rules (based on CLDR data with missing rules added) for all the supported projects.