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ICU Plural + Selectordinal — English

English ICU plural and selectordinal SAMPLE catalogue for plural-rule engines.

InternationalizationLocalization catalogsEncoding detection
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{
  "locale": "en",
  "messages": {
    "cart": "{count, plural, =0 {Your cart is empty} one {You have # item} other {You have # items}}",
    "files": "{n, plural, one {# file} few {# files} many {# files} other {# files}}",
    "ordinal": "{n, selectordinal, one {#st} two {#nd} few {#rd} other {#th}} place"
  }
}

Specifications

Locale
en
Features
plural,selectordinal
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 + Selectordinal — English” 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 · 317 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("en-plurals.json") as f:
    data = json.load(f)
print(type(data), len(data))

Related files

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