<i18n dev> Message Format 2.0

Naoto Sato naoto.sato at oracle.com
Thu Jan 15 17:17:17 UTC 2026


Thanks for the suggestion. At the moment, we don't have any plan to 
support LDML MessageFormat in the JDK, considering the amount of 
required work. I've filed an RFE for future consideration: 
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8375468

Naoto

On 1/15/26 1:00 AM, Omar Aloraini wrote:
> Are there any plans to incorporate Message Format 2.0 [0] into 
> java.base? There also seems to be ongoing work on defining a 'container' 
> for the translation files (an alternative to .properties) [1].
> 
> [0] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-73/tr35-messageFormat.html 
> <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-73/tr35-messageFormat.html>
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/gh-pages/explainers/ 
> message-resources.md <https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/blob/gh-pages/ 
> explainers/message-resources.md>



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