fluent VS pot-desktop

I think modern Japanese is LTR, but besides that - I believe the project you worked in the past solves an important problem.

Besides pluralization (and e.g. Arabic having 6 forms zero/one/two/few/many/other), turned out number internationalization and currency conversion are big next challenges the community wants to address next.

> create ICU compliant JSON.

I think this is an excellent idea. I have a feeling in the future we will need ICU v2.0, sort of, but unfortunately it's an extremely hard problem and the probability to fail is pretty high (looks like project fluent is not actively maintained anymore: https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent)

Tried BoldVoice right now and almost immediately hit a bit of awkwardness: “Tomorrow, we’ll work on Practice your consonant skills”. Usually I wouldn’t complain about this sort of thing, but in a language learning app it seems unfortunate. (Mozilla’s Project Fluent[1] was built to handle these situations in a localization setting, but you can probably get away with something much simpler.)

[1] https://projectfluent.org/

Hi! Thank you for your critique!

> 1) “Your knight has killed a dragon with a crossbow”

We have a proposal for dynamic references to address this problem - https://github.com/projectfluent/fluent/issues/80 - it's non-trivial but I hope we'll see it solved in Fluent and/or in MessageFormat 2.

> 2) The parser is extremely sensitive

True. It's on purpose. We wanted to start with strict and loosen, rather than the opposite.

> 3) The input files mandate a weird arrangement of new lines for even the simplest branching

Same as above.

> 4) The documentation is too Spartan to know what happens in edge cases.

We're a small team :)

> It heralds itself to be the saviour of all i18n, but it’s literally worse than the mess that came before it.

I'm sorry to hear it doesn't work for you. I'm relieved that your criticism is seems more subjective except of one missing feature that no other l10n system has as of yet.