pub enum PluralCategory {
    Zero,
    One,
    Two,
    Few,
    Many,
    Other,
}
Expand description

The plural categories are used to format messages with numeric placeholders, expressed as decimal numbers.

The fundamental rule for determining plural categories is the existence of minimal pairs: whenever two different numbers may require different versions of the same message, then the numbers have different plural categories.

All languages supported by ICU4X can match any number to one of the categories.

Examples

use icu::locid::locale;
use icu::plurals::{PluralCategory, PluralRuleType, PluralRules};

let pr = PluralRules::try_new_unstable(
    &icu_testdata::unstable(),
    &locale!("en").into(),
    PluralRuleType::Cardinal,
)
.expect("Failed to construct a PluralRules struct.");

assert_eq!(pr.category_for(5_usize), PluralCategory::Other);

Variants

Zero

CLDR “zero” plural category. Used in Arabic and Latvian, among others.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 0 in Arabic (ar), Latvian (lv)
  • 10~20, 30, 40, 50, … in Latvian (lv)

One

CLDR “one” plural category. Signifies the singular form in many languages.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 0 in French (fr), Portuguese (pt), …
  • 1 in English (en) and most other languages
  • 2.1 in Filipino (fil), Croatian (hr), Latvian (lv), Serbian (sr)
  • 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, … in Filipino (fil)

Two

CLDR “two” plural category. Used in Arabic, Hebrew, and Slovenian, among others.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 2 in Arabic (ar), Hebrew (iw), Slovenian (sl)
  • 2.0 in Arabic (ar)

Few

CLDR “few” plural category. Used in Romanian, Polish, Russian, and others.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 0 in Romanian (ro)
  • 1.2 in Croatian (hr), Romanian (ro), Slovenian (sl), Serbian (sr)
  • 2 in Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Czech (cs), …
  • 5 in Arabic (ar), Lithuanian (lt), Romanian (ro)

Many

CLDR “many” plural category. Used in Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and others.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 0 in Polish (pl)
  • 1.0 in Czech (cs), Slovak (sk)
  • 1.1 in Czech (cs), Lithuanian (lt), Slovak (sk)
  • 15 in Arabic (ar), Polish (pl), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)

Other

CLDR “other” plural category, used as a catch-all. Each language supports it, and it is also used as a fail safe result for in case no better match can be identified.

In some languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai, this is the only plural category.

Examples of numbers having this category:

  • 0 in English (en), German (de), Spanish (es), …
  • 1 in Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Chinese (zh), Thai (th), …
  • 2 in English (en), German (de), Spanish (es), …

Implementations

Returns an ordered iterator over variants of Plural Categories.

Categories are returned in alphabetical order.

Examples
use icu::plurals::PluralCategory;

let mut categories = PluralCategory::all();

assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::Few));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::Many));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::One));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::Other));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::Two));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), Some(PluralCategory::Zero));
assert_eq!(categories.next(), None);

Returns the PluralCategory corresponding to given TR35 string.

Returns the PluralCategory corresponding to given TR35 string as bytes

Trait Implementations

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Compares and returns the maximum of two values. Read more

Compares and returns the minimum of two values. Read more

Restrict a value to a certain interval. Read more

This method tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==. Read more

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This method returns an ordering between self and other values if one exists. Read more

This method tests less than (for self and other) and is used by the < operator. Read more

This method tests less than or equal to (for self and other) and is used by the <= operator. Read more

This method tests greater than (for self and other) and is used by the > operator. Read more

This method tests greater than or equal to (for self and other) and is used by the >= operator. Read more

Serialize this value into the given Serde serializer. Read more

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