Talk Beginner

MessageFormat: The future of i18n on the web

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Session Description

Internationalization in JavaScript and on the web platform is very complicated, but also vastly important for us developers in order to build accessible and intelligible interfaces. Thankfully, Unicode Consortium's MessageFormat working group and TC39 have been hard at work standardizing the next generation of i18n tooling that aims to unify analogous non-standard tools in use today while approaching this problem from a fresh perspective.

Join me along this tour of i18n in JavaScript, discover some of the newest additions to the toolkit and learn about the ongoing MessageFormat proposal and how it aims to radically improve the developer experience.

Key Takeaways

The importance of localization and internationalization of (web) interfaces
The state of technology and tooling for i18n on the web
Design of the upcoming MessageFormat API and how to use it

References

https://messageformat.unicode.org/

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project

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Compilers, Programming Languages and Systems Devroom

Speakers

Ujjwal Sharma Compilers Hacker | Igalia

Ujjwal is a Compilers Hacker at Igalia serving as a co-chairperson of TC39 (the JavaScript standards committee) and co-editor of ECMA-402 (the JavaScript Internationalization spec). He loves to talk about open source software, decentralization, cryptography, JavaScript and web standards.

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