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ICU MessageFormat JSON — Arabic

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Arabic) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

Internationalization Localization catalogs Encoding detection

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{
  "locale": "ar",
  "messages": {
    "greeting": "مرحبا",
    "welcome": "أهلاً، {name}",
    "items": "{count, plural, =0 {لا عناصر} one {عنصر #} other {# عناصر}}",
    "gender": "{userGender, select, male {أعجبه} female {أعجبها} other {أعجبهم}} هذا.",
    "save": "حفظ",
    "cancel": "إلغاء"
  },
  "format": "icu-messageformat",
  "sample": true
}

Specifications

Format: ICU MessageFormat
Locale: ar
Keys: 6
Wave: G

What is a .json file?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based data-interchange format representing objects, arrays, strings, numbers, booleans, and null. It is language-independent, human-readable, and the dominant format for web APIs and configuration. It requires a single well-formed root value.

How to use this file

Use an example JSON file to test parsers and serializers, schema validation, Unicode and number-precision handling, and API request or response processing.

How to use this file for testing

“ICU MessageFormat JSON — Arabic” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Internationalization, Localization catalogs, Encoding detection. Parallel text and accented, multi-script content — for testing translation pipelines, Unicode handling, and localization tooling.

Documented properties for this file: ICU MessageFormat. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Translation-catalog fixtures carry the same message set across formats, each with its native placeholder syntax. Test your i18n loader, catalog converter, or translation-memory tool, and use the RTL and CJK variants to check bidirectional text and Unicode handling.

Load the catalog with your i18n framework and verify placeholder interpolation and plural handling; the RTL and CJK variants exercise bidirectional text and font fallback.

Code examples

import json

with open("messages-ar.json") as f:
    data = json.load(f)
print(type(data), len(data))

Generated by generation/localization_wave_g.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.

Specifications

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