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Timothy Flynn
ea78bac36d LibUnicode: Parse and generate per-locale plural rules from the CLDR
Plural rules in the CLDR are of the form:

"cs": {
    "pluralRule-count-one": "i = 1 and v = 0 @integer 1",
    "pluralRule-count-few": "i = 2..4 and v = 0 @integer 2~4",
    "pluralRule-count-many": "v != 0 @decimal 0.0~1.5, 10.0, 100.0 ...",
    "pluralRule-count-other": "@integer 0, 5~19, 100, 1000, 10000 ..."
}

The syntax is described here:
https://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Plural_rules_syntax

There are up to 2 sets of rules for each locale, a cardinal set and an
ordinal set. The approach here is to generate a C++ function for each
set of rules. Each condition in the rules (e.g. "i = 1 and v = 0") is
transpiled to a C++ if-statement within its function. Then lookup tables
are generated to match locales to their generated functions.

NOTE: -Wno-parentheses-equality is added to the LibUnicodeData compile
flags because the generated plural rules have lots of extra parentheses
(because e.g. we need to selectively negate and combine rules). The code
to generate only exactly the right number of parentheses is quite hairy,
so this just tells the compiler to ignore the extras.
2022-07-08 11:51:54 +02:00