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Definitely the former, apologies for making it confusing. > What is the equivalent of xgettext.pl There is no standard one, although people build their own. The general consensus i…

Here is a proposal for a message resource format on top of MF2.0 - https://github.com/eemeli/message-resource-wg

https://messageformat.unicode.org/ Lmk if you have further questions!

ICU4C and ICU4J have implementations. We also have a JS polyfill and will be working on ICU4X impl this quarter.

Yep. Mozilla is planning an auto converter from Fluent to MF2.0 once we stabilize it.

We are targeting MF2.0 for inclusion in JavaEcript stdlib (ECMA-402). And later maybe with its own format into DOM for DOM L10n.

Correct. MF2.0 addresses all the challenges we identified during design of Fluent.

No, gettext scales very badly, both vertically (larger systems) and horizontally (locales with rich grammatical forms like declensions etc.) We (authors of Fluent and collaborators…

Hi! Thank you for your critique! > 1) “Your knight has killed a dragon with a crossbow” We have a proposal for dynamic references to address this problem - https://github.com/proje…

We're happy to announce ICU4X 1.2, containing a host of new features with a focus on text engines. The new ML-powered break iterators and HarfBuzz bindings enable developers to per…

Hi, just for context - this was a comparison of `unicode-normalizer` crate to ICU4C. Since then @hsivonen from Mozilla wrote a new normalizer that recently got merged into ICU4X - …

Fair question, thanks for asking! There have been 9 revisions of ECMA-402 since 2012. We are, in fact, following TC-39 on a yearly cadence of releases. You can see the history of e…

You're correct. Intl formatting has two components: - Selecting the appropriate pattern for a given locale - Formatting numbers and words into the given locale (example: eastern-ar…

Hi all! I've been working on ECMA-402 for the last 6 years on behalf of Mozilla. I'm excited to see it showcased on HN! We have an amazing, inclusive and open community of engineer…

`strftime` is not an internationalization API! It's a datetime formatting API! :) I can see an appeal for it, and I wouldn't mind `Date` or `Temporal` to have such pattern-driven f…

I'm one of the leaders of the ICU4X project which is a Rust implementation of ECMA-402 aiming to back client-side solutions. We hope to eventually back SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS eng…

I18n parsing is indeed hell. I'm very very reluctant to try to add it to ECMA-402 for that particular reason. Thank you for writing a user land library for it. It's a thankless tas…

Thanks! If you'd like to help we just merged Segmenter API into ICU4X with an intention to back the ECMA-402 Segmenter API! See https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/pull/717 We cou…

We have been talking about this problem a bit. The tension here is that UX mocks a particular locale as "pixel perfect" and doesn't really "care" about how it'll i18n into other lo…

The list your linked is from 2012. In the last 9 years ECMA-402 has been heavily influenced by Mozilla's projects like Firefox OS and MozIntl APIs. :)

Read about Celo or Stellar. I'm not trying to hype you up, but I think that there's a lot of utility happening outside of your bubble. Some of that happens in countries you don't l…

That feels like a rationalization of an emotional argument. Gold's current value is not related to its function as a material for jewelry, but from a myth that it is a store of val…