does icu4x support selectordinal?

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[zbraniecki]

Hi @byte1234 ! Thank you for interest in ICU4X.

Yes, we support it via icu::plurals::PluralRules.

In the snippet example it uses PluralRuleType::Cardinal which you can swap for Ordinal to get that instead.

Compared to ICU4C/J and ECMA-402 we renamed the method select to category_for to leave space for deeper future integration into upcoming MessageFormat 2 plural selection model.

I apologize for the inconvenience and hope this helps. Please let me know if it resolved your issue

[ghost]

wow, really thanks. Btw, how does icu4x parse the messageformat, I find
that the icu4c contains the code for that. If it isn’t a builtin feature,
may i ask for a recommendation? Thank you, We are considering icu4x for our
cross platform i18n solution.

[zbraniecki]

We do not have support for MessageFormat yet. Unicode is working on a revision of MF called MessageFormat 2 which is a generational advancement over the previous revision and ICU4X's plan is to directly support the new revision.

I started prototyping it, but had to pause to prioritize a more urgent feature (generic pattern support). I plan to resume work on MF2 in ICU4X in a month or so.