message-format-wg

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Automatically format arguments in certain positions

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Fluent implicitly formats arguments in three situations: * Numbers in placeables are formatted using `NumberFormatter` * Dates in placeables are formatted using `DateFormatter` * Numbers in selector are formatted using...

zbraniecki

Group Comments

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** In a resource-file approach, it's common to group messages and give them a single comment which contains metadata about all...

stasm

Comments attached to messages

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Besides the source text, message typically have a lot of metadata about them: comments explaining the context and the purpose,...

stasm

Text transformations (e.g. title case, capitalize first letter, lower case)

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Since variables move around in a sentence, it can become important to have letter casing to be specified by a...

grhoten

Support conditional spans of text

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** There should be a generic way to handle conditionals. When getting words into grammatical agreement, word choice can depend on...

grhoten

Support list handling

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** CLDR provides some list definitions, but it's not really complete. Conjunction or "and" lists are context sensitive in some languages....

grhoten

Provide standard pronoun handling

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Pronouns are hard to do in many languages. It can depend on the grammatical gender of the noun or the...

grhoten

Provide a way to get a number and noun into grammatical agreement.

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** It's a common requirement to turn a quantity of something in a message format into something that is grammatically correct....

grhoten

Separation of print and spoken forms

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**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** There are times that you need to provide guidance on pronunciation of a given word. **Describe the solution you'd like**...

grhoten

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** This request is similar to https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/issues/15. While message formatting should not have to natively support [SSML](https://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/), it should not prevent...

grhoten