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Prepare design doc ahead of balloting #506

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<dd>2023-09-13</dd>
<dt>Pull Request</dt>
<dd><a href="https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/474">#474</a></dd>
<dd><a href="https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/503">#503</a></dd>
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There are five candidates for handling the boundaries between code and patterns:

1. Always quote non-simple patterns (current design)
2. Never quote patterns (all whitespace is significant)
2. ~~Never quote patterns (all whitespace is significant)~~
3. Permit non-simple patterns to be quoted and trim unquoted whitespace
4. Trim all unquoted whitespace, but do not permit quoting non-simple patterns
5. Selectively trim patterns (all whitespace is otherwise significant)
5. ~~Selectively trim patterns (all whitespace is otherwise significant)~~

### Always Quote

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### Never Quote Patterns

> [!IMPORTANT]
> This option was rejected by the working group in the 2023-10-30 call.

In this alternative, all non-code whitespace is significant.
We have to use a slightly different syntax in the example, so that
the boundary between code and pattern works.
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### Selective Trimming

> [!IMPORTANT]
> This option was rejected by the working group in the 2023-10-30 call.

In this alternative, only specific whitespace is automatically trimmed
and the whitespace can be omitted.
This is similar to "Never Quote Patterns" in that all whitespace
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in those outer formats to aid human comprehension (e.g., depending upon container
format, a U+000A LINE FEED might be represented as `\n`, `\012`, `\x0A`, `\u000A`,
`\U0000000A`, `&#xA;`, `&NewLine;`, `%0A`, `<LF>`, or something else entirely).
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