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Welcome to the home page for the MessageFormat Working Group, a subgroup of the Unicode CLDR-TC.
The Message Format Working Group (MFWG) is tasked with developing an industry standard for the representation of localizable message strings to be a successor to ICU MessageFormat. MFWG will recommend how to remove redundancies, make the syntax more usable, and support more complex features, such as gender, inflections, and speech. MFWG will also consider the integration of the new standard with programming environments, including, but not limited to, ICU, DOM, and ECMAScript, and with localization platform interchange. The output of MFWG will be a specification for the new syntax, which is expected to be on track to become a Unicode Technical Standard.
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This is the agenda document for upcoming calls of the MessageFormat subcommittee. We normally meet weekly
on Mondays at 9:30 Pacific (America/Los_Angeles). This is currently UTC+7.
See here for your local time.
Information on joining calls is found in the calendar invite.
This block reserved for scribe rotation.
Recent scribes:
- 2024-10-21 APP
- 2024-10-14 MIH
- 2024-10-07 TIM
- 2024-09-30 EAO
- 2024-09-09 HGO
- 2024-09-02 (no quorum)
- 2024-08-26 ECH
- 2024-08-19 MIH, ECH
- 2024-08-12 RGN
- 2024-08-05 TIM
- 2024-07-29 ECH
- 2024-07-22 HGO
- 2024-07-15 LCA, USA
- 2024-07-08 MIH
- 2024-07-01 TIM
- 2024-06-24 STA
- 2024-06-17 ECH
- 2024-06-10 n/a
- 2024-06-03 MRR
- 2024-05-20 MIH
- 2024-05-13 USA, TIM, ECH
- 2024-05-06 TIM, ECH
- 2024-04-29 ECH
- 2024-04-22 MRR
- 2024-04-15 MIH
- 2024-04-08 MRR
- 2024-03-25 TIM
- 2024-03-18 MIH
- 2024-03-04 RGN
- 2024-02-26 ECH
- 2024-02-xx everyone
- 2024-02-12 MIH
- 2024-02-05 SCA
- 2024-01-29 TIM
- 2024-01-22 STA
- 2024-01-15 MIH
- 2024-01-08 SCA (removing pre-2024 history)
- 2024-10-28 Regular Teleconference https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S2OqVVRfuCYUGfvc49PpoNedUgTTcedmCzzv5GrUmWM/edit
The next regular meeting will be 28 October 2024 and is a Regular WG Teleconference call.
To request that the chair add an issue to the agenda, add the label Agenda+
To request that the chair add an agenda item, send email to the message-format-wg group email.
Let’s review the Task List:
This PR exposes the problem of function handlers that might evaluate differently in different parts of a message, e.g. “getCurrentSystemTime”. Tim did revise the text. Let’s discuss.
This PR adds a comma to the text. But the discussion of that comma proved… interesting. Suggest we merge the PR and add text in this comment using a separate PR that we merge aggressively.
Mark proposed adding an offset option to :number for parity with MF1. We discussed including this last week, but need a PR.
Eemeli has helpfully provided a PR for optional currency and unit formatting in 46.1. In #838 we discussed the right approach to use. Addison suggests making currency and unit separate, optional, functions. We should make a crisp decision about whether to bundle or unbundle these formatters from :number and :integer, since we’ll have to live with it forever.
Eemeli suggests dropping the request for TP feedback on whether the data model should split namespace/name or keep name as an opaque string. We’ve discussed this before. This discussion should be limited to whether to drop the note. Time allocated: 5 minutes.
Addison has updated the design doc to include a proposal for non-integer serialization.
Discussion of active PRs. We will merge or reject them in the call. The recommendation "discuss" is to ensure there is WG consensus before merging. The recommendation "merge with edits" is to merge once existing comments have been addressed. Discussion of active PRs. We will merge or reject them in the call.
| PR | Description | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| #913 | Add link to messageformat.dev to README file | Discuss |
| #911 | Define locale options for :datetime :date and :time | Discuss |
| #908 | Define currency and unit formatting | Discuss, Agenda+ |
| #903 | Fix fallback value definition and use | Discuss |
| #901 | Clarify note about eager vs. lazy evaluation | Discuss, Merge |
| #859 | [DESIGN] Number selection design refinements | Discuss, Agenda+ |
| #842 | Match numbers numerically | Discuss (Reject) |
| #584 | Add new terms to glossary | Discuss |
What is the status of our various design docs?
| Doc | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| dataflow-composability | Data Flow for Composable Functions | Proposed (Obsolete?) |
| maintaining-registry | Maintaining the function registry | Proposed, Discuss |
| number-selection | Define how selection on numbers happens | Revision Proposed |
Accepted, Obsolete, and Rejected Designs
| Doc | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| function-composition-part-1 | Function Composition | Obsolete |
| beauty-contest | Choose between syntax options | Obsolete |
| selection-matching-options | Selection Matching Options (ballot) | Obsolete |
| syntax-exploration-2 | Balloting of the revised syntax used in the Tech Preview | Obsolete |
| variants | A collection of message examples which require a branching logic to handle grammatical variations | Obsolete |
| formatted-parts | Define how format-to-parts works | Rejected |
| quoted-literals | Document the rationale for including quoted literals in MF and for choosing the | as the quote symbol | Accepted |
| builtin-registry-capabilities | Tech Preview default registry definition | Accepted |
| code-mode-introducer | Choose the pattern for complex messages | Accepted |
| data-driven-tests | Capture the planned approach for the test suite | Accepted |
| default-registry-and-mf1-compatibility | Default Registry and MF1 Compatibility | Accepted |
| delimiting-variant-patterns | Delimiting of Patterns in Complex Messages (Ballot) | Accepted |
| error-handling | Decide whether and what implementations do after a runtime error | Accepted |
| exact-match-selector-options | Choose the name for the “exact match” selector function (this is :string) |
Accepted |
| expression-attributes | Define how attributes may be attached to expressions | Accepted |
| open-close-placeholders | Describe the use cases and requirements for placeholders that enclose parts of a pattern | Accepted |
| overriding-extending-namespacing | Defines how externally-authored functions can appear in a message; how externally authored options can appear; and effect of namespacing | Accepted |
| pattern-exterior-whitespace | Specify how whitespace inside of a pattern (at the start/end) works | Accepted |
| string-selection-formatting | Define how selection and formatting of string values takes place. | Accepted |
| variable-mutability | Describe how variables are named and how externally passed variables and internally defined variables interact | Accepted |
| bidi-usability | Manage bidi isolation | Accepted |
| selection-declaration | Effect of selectors on subsequent placeholders | Accepted |