UTW 2024

Localization
Internationalization

Solving Inflection

Nebojša Ćirić, George Rhoten

on  Tue, 9:50in  Rasterfor  40min

Noun inflection is an unsolved problem in message formatting/UI and affects 1.7B users from Slavic, Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and other languages. Most companies deploy UI work arounds that don’t sound native or lose personalization available to English users.

We would like to evangelize the new Unicode WG effort and attract contributors, both engineers and linguists to help us scale to as many languages as possible.

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