Re: [icu-design] ICU API proposal: API for ordinal-plural formatting

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

Modifications from today's ICU team meeting:

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Markus Scherer <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> *source/common/unicode/messagepattern.h*
>
> *A new UMessagePatternArgType value:*
>
>     /**
>      * The argument is an ordinal-number PluralFormat
>      * with the same style parts sequence and semantics as
> UMSGPAT_ARG_TYPE_PLURAL.
>      * @draft ICU 50
>      */
>     UMSGPAT_ARG_TYPE_ORDINAL
>

This will be UMSGPAT_ARG_TYPE_SELECTORDINAL instead, to match the new
argument type keyword.

*source/i18n/unicode/msgfmt.h*
>
> *Updated syntax:*
>
>  * message = messageText (argument messageText)*
>  * argument = noneArg | simpleArg | complexArg
>  * complexArg = choiceArg | pluralArg | *ordinalArg | *selectArg
>  *
>  * noneArg = '{' argNameOrNumber '}'
>  * simpleArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' argType [',' argStyle] '}'
>  * choiceArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "choice" ',' choiceStyle '}'
>  * pluralArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "plural" ',' pluralStyle '}'
> * * ordinalArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "plordinal" ',' pluralStyle '}'*
>  * selectArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "select" ',' selectStyle '}'
>
> Note: For discussion of the new argument type name (here "plordinal") see
> the "Preliminary proposal for Ordinals" email thread.
>

The new argument type keyword will be "selectordinal", not "plordinal".

Best regards,
markus