I have been looking for information on Android support for complex
Asian language scripts like Arabic, Khmer, Urdu. Does anybody know if
Android platform officially support these languages?


On Mar 12, 2:36 am, Greg <miyamo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could document the R.plurals localization
> construct. From what I can gather it works similar to other resources
> however a bit different,
>
> <string name="some_string">Only %1$d more things left</string>
> ...
> looked up as:
> int quantity = 4;
> context.getString(R.string.some_string, quantity);
>
> To do a correct localized entry, it would become:
>
> <plurals name="some_string">
> <item quantity="one">Only 1 more thing left</item>
> <item quantity="two">Only a couple more things left</item>
> <item quantity="zero">Congrats you have nothing left</item>
> <item quantity="other">Only %1$d more things left</item>
> <item quantity="few">Apparently there are only a few things left</
> item> <!-- Stumped as to the means of few-->
> <item quantity="many">Apparently there are many things left</item><!--
> Stumped as to what qualifies as MANY? -->
> </plurals>
>
> and looked up as:
> int quantity = 4;
> context.getResources().getQuantityString(R.plurals.some_string,
> quantity, quantity);
>
> The Many and Few don't seem to have clear implementations. Could you
> elaborate on this construct?

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