Re: [icu-design] Preliminary proposal for Ordinals

[Markus S. <mar...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Markus Scherer <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> I think that in all other places of the preliminary API proposal "ordinal"
> is fine and unambiguous, but for the MessageFormat syntax we will need to
> find a different type name.
>
> So what would work?
> - pl_ordinal?
> - ordinal_pl?
> - plural_ordinal?
> - plural_ord?
> - other?
>

Currently, the argument type name must only contain [a-zA-Z], no
underscore. Either we find a name of only ASCII letters (probably best) or
we allow whatever else we want.

markus