Plural issues on Android due to update to CLDR 41 about translate

[nijel]

Presently, this list is shared for more file formats, so probably a separate one is needed for Android to stick with CLDR 38. The previous version was CLDR 37, so some additions in the PR are needed for Android as well.

As for Weblate, it will need additional definitions in https://github.com/WeblateOrg/language-data/ to match this (it currently uses the latest CLDR as well).

[nijel]

...which is now Won't Fix (Obsolete), what really doesn't explain anything.

Anyway, Android seems to be upgrading CLDR frequently, the question is how to deal with that:

• Keep separate rules for Android and update them when Android with updated support is released. This is more accurate, but also requires more maintenance.
• Always follow the latest CLDR and ignore the differences. Android will follow up at some point anyway.
• Update CLDR data once it has been released in Android. This will postpone it for everybody else.

This was merely a non-issue before changes in CLDR 38 – the only changes were additions of new languages, so it didn't break existing ones. In recent CLDR releases, rules for existing languages are changing and that makes it harder to deal with.

[johan12345]

Hm, it seems that Android 13 has been updated with CLDR 40 plurals: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/features#unicode
(that just hasn't been added to the table I found above yet).
So then it might be a bug in Android Lint that it still complains about the many plural type...

[johan12345]

reported on Google's issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/280634462