Thread:Support/New plural rules for Scots Gaelic (gd)/reply (33)

Akerbeltz- the comment from Santosh.thottingal of 27.1.12 does not propose any changes to translatewiki.net. It does discuss whether we, the translatewiki.net community, wish to request changes to CLDR. My comment as a fellow translator at translatewiki.net, with no more authority to "OKay" anything than any other translator, and as someone with a very small amount of experience contributing to CLDR, is that any application to change the PLURAL rules for Scots Gaelic at CLDR had better be addressed to them directly.

As to the question of whether the PLURAL rules work for CLDR, you will see by following the links provided above in my comment of 28 January 2012, that the issue at stake is; how are the software writers using the CLDR rules using PLURAL in their programmes. If they use PLURAL only in sentences which also contain a digit, then (if I understood your explanations of Scots Gaelic grammar above correctly), the software translators will be able to produce grammatically correct sentences for all numbers using the 4 rules only. However, if software writers also use PLURAL in sentences where no number appears, then the two additional cases are needed. CLDR have clarified that they do want PLURAL rules to cover situations where no numbers appear in a sentence (see the link to CLDR above) and therefore Scots Gaelic speakers may conclude that they wish to apply to CLDR to expand the PLURAL rule set to 6. As you are no doubt aware, the downside of having more rules is that the translators have more work to do in forming translations using PLURAL.