ICU Plural — Arabic (RTL)
Arabic RTL ICU plural SAMPLE covering zero/one/two/few/many/other categories.
{
"locale": "ar",
"messages": {
"cart": "{count, plural, =0 {سلتك فارغة} zero {لا عناصر} one {عنصر واحد} two {عنصران} few {# عناصر} many {# عنصراً} other {# عنصر}}",
"files": "{n, plural, zero {لا ملفات} one {ملف} two {ملفان} few {# ملفات} other {# ملف}}"
},
"rtl": true
}
Specifications
- Locale
- ar
- Rtl
- true
- Plural Categories
- zero,one,two,few,many,other
- 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 Plural — Arabic (RTL)” 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: JSON · 357 bytes. 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("ar-plurals.json") as f:
data = json.load(f)
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