[xliff-tools] XLIFF representation

[David Fraser]

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

>
> Hi Asgeir,
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, the gettext library does not support writing 
>> software where
>> source language strings have non-Germanic plural forms.
>
>
> You're probably correct. I wasn't aware other types of plural forms 
> exist outside of what (n)gettext currently supports.

The issue is that gettext has only limited support for plural forms in 
the original string (msgid), in contrast, it has quite extensive support 
for plural forms in the translations (msgstr). It is assumed that the 
original string comes from a singular / plural language

David