Comment by Vinnl
11 days ago
This post shows a lot of the challenges with localisation, that many seemingly simple tools don't have an answer to: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/fluent-1-0-a-localization-...
(Fluent informed much of the design of MessageFormat 2.)
Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.
I18n / l10n is full of things like this, important details that couldn’t be more boring or fiddly to implement.
Which is why Windows UI is littered with language like "number of rows: {n}".
Makes it easier to parse by automatic tools too
> Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.
How long till we just have a LLM do it on the fly?