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Developing a standard for localizable message strings
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…confusing documentation and format. Compare that to MessageFormat's pluralization example ( https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/s... ) which is very easy to understand and fully in the translator's hands.
comment by moltonel · 2026-02-16 · in MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings -
…of "all grammatical features of all languages", but the "common" cases are hard enough. From https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/s... : .local $hasCase = {$userName :ns:hasCase} .match $hasCase vocative {{Hello,…
comment by BoppreH · 2026-02-16 · in MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings -
…and then a more fuller markup language, more like a simplified xml. There are more example code at https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/d...
comment by silvestrov · 2026-02-16 · in MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings -
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