Re: [Translation-i18n] translating via an intermediate language

[Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>]

Dwayne Bailey wrote:
> > I can reduce the number of plural forms to 2, by choosing for the
> > "singular" the one with n = 1 and for "plural" the one which is chosen
> > most often for n -> ∞.
> 
> Would it not be a better options to have
> 
> msgid[0][ru]
> msgid[1][ru]
> etc
> 
> So that the proper plurals are indeed there?

I think that would be redundant.

> The same
> mechanism could be used to store previous msgstr for review purposes.

Hmm, I'm not sure. I think an msgdiff program would be better for review
purposes.

Bruno