Please support Russian plural forms about i18n-node-2 HOT 5 OPEN

Actually, I'll wait on how mashpie will treat your similar issue mashpie#178 to see what to do

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I guess that would be possible by using a function / or a custom object

directory: {
    0: 'There is %n directory',
    1: 'There is %n directory',
    'more': 'Thereis %n directories'
}

A function would be simpler but it can't work in JSON files. Some thoughts @jeresig ?

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New idea : conditions as keys

directory: {
    0: 'There is 0 directory',
    1: 'There is 1 directory',
    '>1': 'There is %n directories'
}

Which would require some sort of eval/parsing. Which is pretty difficult

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well, rails has that solved in its ActiveSupport gem. They have all kind of pluralization with simple rules.

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Gettext format solves this by embedding count expression in locale file. The idea is to use empty key in translation file to store some additional information, among them - language rules.

The example of such rules can be seen in test files of another JS translator: https://github.com/messageformat/Jed/blob/master/test/tests.js

I suppose, that upon loading transation file, such rule can be transformed to JS function and then used to fetch appropriate index from different translation forms.

As the gettext format is being widely used on server side and it's proven, maybe this is the way to go.

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