[AGENDA] MessageFormat 2025-05-19

[Addison Phillips]

All,

The agenda for the 2025-05-19 MessageFormat Working Group teleconference has been updated.

You can find it here:

• https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg/wiki
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M3LamAYBDfsV8i0HT1EHFLH2OqyuFBDIHg9OZPSOgG0/edit

Behold the agenda:

Topic: Info Share, Project Planning

Topic: PR Review

Timeboxed review of items ready for merge.

PR	Description	Recommendation
#1073	Change :math to :offset and remove draft status	Discuss, Merge
#1068	Design document for percent formatting	Merge
#1067	Semantic skeletons design	Discuss
#1065	Draft new charter and goals for v49/v50 and beyond	Discuss, Agenda+

Topic: :offset function (was :math)

In the previous call, we decided to rename :math to :offset and make it focus on the MF1 plural offset use case. Addison created a PR (#1073) to this effect. The name of the function, the options, and the effect (if any) on the resolved value of the operand are not yet consensus.

NOTE: This will be the first normative change (addition of) a default function. We should also discuss the process, including whether to ballot.

Topic: Working Group Charter and Goals

The proposed working group charter and proposed goals have been available for a few weeks. Let’s finalize these for submission to the TC.

Topic: Semantic Skeletons

Let’s discuss next steps in completing the design.

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

Topic: Issue review

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

Currently we have 26 open (was 28 last time).

• 18 are tagged for 48
• 3 are tagged “Future”
• 13 are Preview-Feedback
• 1 is tagged Feedback
• 0 are resolve-candidate and proposed for close.
• 3 are Agenda+ and proposed for discussion (see below)
• 2 are PR-Needed and need a pull request
• 0 are ballots

Issue	Description	Recommendation
#866	CLDR semantic datetime skeleton spec is nearly ready and MF2 should use it	Discuss
#978	Interoperability concerns and normative-optional features	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.