Addison Phillips

The W3C I18N Working Group discussed this PR today [in our teleconference](https://www.w3.org/2023/05/11-i18n-minutes.html#t06). I am adding this comment on our behalf. We are concerned that this prohibition will disadvantage smaller language/cultural...

@ljharb asked: > doesnt this prohibition only require refreshing the page after installing a new locale? Not as far as I can tell? It seems to require that any two...

(chair hat on) @eemeli was asked to file this issue following discussion in the 2024-01-15 teleconference. In that call, we explicitly discussed that this is out-of-scope for `LDML45`. The MFWG...

I think this is now out of scope for 2.0. @eemeli okay to close?

My reasoning here is that this is not something we will change in 2.0. We have design docs for [literals](https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/exploration/quoted-literals.md) and [pattern delimiters](https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/exploration/delimiting-variant-patterns.md), the [beauty contest](https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/exploration/beauty-contest.md) and have had numerous...

This won't be in the v47 final release. Marking for consideration for close. We can always consider a proposal that extends the syntax in allowable ways, but it should be...

If we do something to fix this, we'll need to confront the problem of pattern initial whitespace. The simplest fix would be to change the ABNF to allow non-significant whitespace...

In the 2024-01-22 call we agreed to place this out of scope for LDML45 and to track this issue during tech preview. I'm using the label `out-of-scope?` for now to...

We resolved to accept this feedback. #854 will close.

In I18N's 2024-07-04 call, we talked about this issue. In general, we think that page author's would like to be able to control the appearance and localization of their pages....