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Requirements for gender and plurals #40

Open jldec opened 2 months ago

jldec commented 2 months ago

Context

Users are asking for inlang to support messages with variant for gender and plurals.

Proposal

Introduce new types which are aligned with ICU Message Format 2 messages and a new message bundle type to collect messages translated for different locales.

W1M0R commented 1 month ago

This format for pluralization seems to be very flexible, in case this matches your goals: https://github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/blob/b42d9bd0c568eebf5ce123ec94b9b13438f46855/i18n/bundle_test.go#L101

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In this example, "simple", "detail", and "everything" are the translation keys, and "zero", "one", "two", "few", "many" and "other" are the different plural forms for the specific translation.

pichfl commented 1 month ago

How about https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/main/spec/formatting.md which is the formal spec for the ICU Message and is also implemented in Format.JS https://formatjs.io/docs/core-concepts/icu-syntax/#plural-format

LorisSigrist commented 1 month ago

@pichfl Good Shout! The ICU MessageFormat 2.0 is actually what we're focussing our internal efforts on

pichfl commented 1 month ago

Much appreciated! I'm involved in a few larger projects in desperate need of this, so if there is anything else I can do to move things along, I'd be happy to help.