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gettext language list automatically generated from CLDR data

Static usage

To use the languages data generated from this tool you can use the bin/export-plural-rules command.

Export command line options

export-plural-rules supports the following options:

--us-ascii If specified, the output will contain only US-ASCII characters. If not specified, the output charset is UTF-8.
--languages=<LanguageId>[,<LanguageId>,...]] --language=<LanguageId>[,<LanguageId>,...]] Export only the specified language codes. Separate languages with commas; you can also use this argument more than once; it's case insensitive and accepts both '_' and '-' as locale chunks separator (eg we accept it_IT as well as it-it). If this option is not specified, the result will contain all the available languages.
--reduce=yes|no If set to yes the output won't contain languages with the same base language and rules. For instance nl_BE (Flemish) will be omitted because it's the same as nl (Dutch). Defaults to no if --languages is specified, to yes otherwise.
--parenthesis=yes|no If set to no, extra parenthesis will be omitted in generated plural rules formulas. Those extra parenthesis are needed to create a PHP-compatible formula. Defaults to yes
--output=<file name> If specified, the output will be saved to <file name>. If not specified we'll output to standard output.

Export formats

export-plural-rules can generate data in the following formats:

json: compressed JSON data
```
export-plural-rules json
```
prettyjson: uncompressed JSON data
```
export-plural-rules prettyjson
```
html: html table (see the result)
```
export-plural-rules html
```
php: build a php file that can be included
```
export-plural-rules --output=yourfile.php php
```
Then you can use that generated file in your php scripts:
```
$languages = include 'yourfile.php';
```

ruby: build a ruby file that can be included

export-plural-rules --parenthesis=no --output=yourfile.rb ruby

Then you can use that generated file in your ruby scripts:

require './yourfile.rb'
PLURAL_RULES['en']

xml: generate an XML document (here you can find the xsd XML schema)
```
export-plural-rules xml
```
po: generate the gettext .po headers for a single language
```
export-plural-rules po --language=YourLanguageCode
```

Dynamic usage

With Composer

You can use Composer to include this tool in your project. Simply launch composer require gettext/languages or add "gettext/languages": "*" to the "require" section of your composer.json file.

Without Composer

If you don't use composer in your project, you can download this package in a directory of your project and include the autoloader file:

require_once 'path/to/src/autoloader.php';

Main methods

The most useful functions of this tools are the following

$allLanguages = Gettext\Languages\Language::getAll();
...
$oneLanguage = Gettext\Languages\Language::getById('en_US');
...

getAll returns a list of Gettext\Languages\Language instances, getById returns a single Gettext\Languages\Language instance (or null if the specified language identifier is not valid).

The main properties of the Gettext\Languages\Language instances are:

id: the normalized language ID (for instance en_US)
name: the language name (for instance American English for en_US)
supersededBy: the code of a language that supersedes this language code (for instance, jw is superseded by jv to represent the Javanese language)
script: the script name (for instance, for zh_Hans - Simplified Chinese - the script is Simplified Han)
territory: the name of the territory (for instance United States for en_US)
baseLanguage: the name of the base language (for instance English for en_US)
formula: the gettext formula to distinguish between different plural rules. For instance n != 1
categories: the plural cases applicable for this language. It's an array of Gettext\Languages\Category instances. Each instance has these properties:
- id: can be (in this order) one of zero, one, two, few, many or other. The other case is always present.
- examples: a representation of some values for which this plural case is valid (examples are simple numbers like 1 or complex ranges like 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, …)

Is this data correct?

Yes - as far as you trust the Unicode CLDR project.

The conversion from CLDR to gettext includes also a lot of tests to check the results. And all passes 😉.

Reference

CLDR

The CLDR specifications define the following variables to be used in the CLDR plural formulas:

n: absolute value of the source number (integer and decimals) (eg: 9.870 => 9.87)
i: integer digits of n (eg: 9.870 => 9)
v: number of visible fraction digits in n, with trailing zeros (eg: 9.870 => 3)
w: number of visible fraction digits in n, without trailing zeros (eg: 9.870 => 2)
f: visible fractional digits in n, with trailing zeros (eg: 9.870 => 870)
t: visible fractional digits in n, without trailing zeros (eg: 9.870 => 87)
c: exponent of the power of 10 used in compact decimal formatting (eg: 98c7 => 7)
e: synonym for c

gettext

The gettext specifications define the following variables to be used in the gettext plural formulas:

n: unsigned long int

Conversion CLDR > gettext

CLDR variable	gettext equivalent
`n`	`n`
`i`	`n`
`v`	`0`
`w`	`0`
`f`	empty
`t`	empty
`c`	empty
`e`	empty

Parenthesis in ternary operators

The generated gettext formulas contain some extra parenthesis, in order to avoid problems in some programming language. For instance, let's assume we have this formula: (0 == 0) ? 0 : (0 == 1) ? 1 : 2

in C it evaluates to 0 since is the same as (0 == 0) ? 0 : ((0 == 1) ? 1 : 2)
in Java it evaluates to 0 since is the same as (0 == 0) ? 0 : ((0 == 1) ? 1 : 2)
in JavaScript it evaluates to 0 since is the same as (0 == 0) ? 0 : ((0 == 1) ? 1 : 2)
in PHP it evaluates to 2 since is the same as ((0 == 0) ? 0 : (0 == 1)) ? 1 : 2

So, in order to avoid problems, instead of a simple a ? 0 : b ? 1 : 2 the resulting formulas will be in this format: a ? 0 : (b ? 1 : 2)

Contributing

Generating the CLDR data

This repository uses the CLDR data, including American English (en_US) json files. In order to generate this data, you can use the bin/import-cldr-data CLI command.

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