Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Efficiently localizing user interfaces is an age-old problem that has haunted programmers since the early days of software development. Many tools and techniques have been employed over the years for this with differing levels of success by organizations across the world.
A few years ago, stakeholders came together in the Unicode Consortium from various areas of work bringing along tools and knowledge in order to build a definitive system that could be a standard solution for these problems. The first part of this design has taken shape as “MessageFormat 2”.
What is MessageFormat 2 like? How does it approach the vast problem space and how exactly could it be adopted across various user interfaces? What further tools and standards are already being developed on top of it? Join us in this session to answer these questions and find out what the future of localization will look like.
Efficiently localizing user interfaces is an age-old problem that has haunted programmers since the early days of software development. Many tools and techniques have been employed over the years for this with differing levels of success by organizations across the world.
A few years ago, stakeholders came together in the Unicode Consortium from various areas of work bringing along tools and knowledge in order to build a definitive system that could be a standard solution for these problems. The first part of this design has taken shape as “MessageFormat 2”.
What is MessageFormat 2 like? How does it approach the vast problem space and how exactly could it be adopted across various user interfaces? What further tools and standards are already being developed on top of it? Join us in this session to answer these questions and find out what the future of localization will look like.
