[AGENDA] MessageFormat 2025-04-07

[Addison Phillips]

All,

The agenda for the 2025-04-07 call has been updated. Apologies for being later than usual.

You can find it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z-dYNF_wNCLr0GgR_7i3rZrf3lJ1_KhHis8xfgICtOo/edit

This is a regular teleconference.

NOTE WELL: This call takes place in the America/Los_Angeles time zone. Participants outside North America may experience this call at a different wall time than usual. See the converter in the wiki page: https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/wiki

Behold the agenda:

Topic: Info Share, Project Planning

Topic: PR Review

Timeboxed review of items ready for merge.

PR	Description	Recommendation
#1067	Semantic skeletons design	Discuss (but probably premature)
#1066	Make the Default Bidi Strategy required and default	Discuss
#1065	Draft new charter and goals for v49/v50 and beyond	Discuss, Agenda+
#1064	Rebranding Unicode MessageFormat	Discuss
#1063	Fix test tags documentation	Merge

Topic: Rechartering and Goals (#1051) and Rebranding (#1064)

We need to set goals for the working group since we’ve partly or wholly disposed of the ones we had. To that end, Addison has drafted new goals/charter. He presented these to CLDR-TC, asking for feedback. Let’s review:
https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/issues/1051
https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/1065
https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/blob/aphillips-draft-charter/docs/goals.md

Topic: Semantic Skeletons

Reserving time to discuss the design.

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/pull/1067

Topic: Percent Formatting (#956)

Reserving time to discuss whether to go with `:percent` or whether to use `:unit unit=percent` and how to handle percents if unscaled.

Topic: Inflection Support

Discussion of proposals for inflection support and next steps.

Baha sent us this proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByapCVm0Fge_X3oPAi8NHtJl03ZFMj-NjXxgmAgJBaM/edit?usp=sharing

Topic: Issue review

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/issues

Currently we have 34 open (was 34 last time).

• 22 are tagged for 48
• 3 are tagged “Future”
• 13 are Preview-Feedback
• 2 are tagged Feedback
• 1 is resolve-candidate and proposed for close.
• 2 are Agenda+ and proposed for discussion (see below)
• 0 are ballots

Issue	Description	Recommendation
#1043	Deployment, development, and maintenance of messageformat.unicode.org	Discuss
#1051	Plans for v48	Discuss

Topic: AOB?

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Addison Phillips
Chair (W3C I18N WG, MessageFormat WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.