Closed eemeli closed 1 year ago
Hmm. CLDR doesn't really have data for the approximately sign. As an English speaker I don't know if "~1 apple" or "~1 apples" sounds more correct; I read it in my head as "about one apple" or "about one apples".
@macchiati @pedberg-icu @zbraniecki Thoughts on this?
I think we can move forward with @eemeli's proposal above, giving implementations the flexibility to do as they please with approximately plurals. Probably add a new AO PluralRuleSelectApproximately
.
Specifically, this happens:
A more reasonable English plural category for
"~1"
would beone
.Effectively, I think we need something like this bit that's in PartitionNumberRangePattern for ResolvePluralRange as well, so that when the corresponding NumberFormat output would be a single number, its category is determined solely from that number, rather than from the start/end pair:
Partly this may be a product of implementations relying on CLDR data, which is more strict than this proposal about its applicable range: