MessageFormat Working Group
Welcome to the home page for the MessageFormat Working Group, a subgroup of the Unicode CLDR-TC.
Charter
The MessageFormat Working Group (MFWG) is tasked with developing and supporting an industry standard for the representation of localizable message strings. MessageFormat is designed to support software developers, translators, and end users with fluent messages and locally-adapted presentation for data values while providing a framework for increasingly complex features, such as gender, inflections, and speech. Our goal is to provide an interoperable syntax, message data model, and associated processing that is capable of being adopted by any presentation framework or programming environement.
The Unicode MessageFormat Standard
The Unicode MessageFormat Standard is a stable part of CLDR. It was approved by the CLDR Technical Committee and is recommended for implementation and adoption. The normative version of the specification is published as a part of TR35. This repository contains the editor's copy.
Unicode MessageFormat is sometimes referred to as MessageFormat 2.0, since it replaces earlier message formatting capabilities built into ICU.
Some default functions and items in the u: namespace are still in Draft status. Feedback from users and implementers might result in changes to these capabilities.
The MessageFormat Working Group and CLDR Technical Committee welcome any and all feedback, including bugs reports, implementation reports, success stories, feature requests, requests for clarification, or anything that would be helpful in supporting or enhancing the specification and promoting widespread adoption.
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