Internationalisation?

[emilyyyylime]

This is to serve as a place to discuss how to implement and generally handle i18n support for the package

[emilyyyylime]

One approach I see is exposing an API in the form of ordinal(i, lang: "..", gender: "", number: "", ...), where then you could then define, for example for Spanish:

let o = ordinal.with(lang: "es", gender: "masculine", number: "singular")
let a = ordinal.with(lang: "es", gender: "feminine", number: "singular")
let os = ordinal.with(lang: "es", gender: "'masculine", number: "plural")
let as = ordinal.with(lang: "es", gender: "feminine", number: "plural")

Though perhaps it's worth noting that rare are the cases where you are able to determine the gender or number of an ordinal, but not its index (not to mention that Spanish doesn't even have different ordinal markers for different number)

[extua]

This is a good idea, although in keeping with setting defaults at the top of the document, I'd prefer an approach where someone can add

#set nth(lang: "cy")

at the top of a document, and ideally we could access that in the function with something like nth.lang. I had a go at this today but got stuck on the warning that you 'can only use element functions in set rules'.

[extua]

Small request, could you add this to the to-do section in the readme, and link to this issue?

[emilyyyylime]

#set nth(lang: "cy")

Sadly this is not possible, most current-day packages go with something like #set-nth(lang: "cy"), that would then use state for keeping track of the configured settings throughout.

Small request, could you add this to the to-do section in the readme, and link to this issue?

I'm not sure why you'd need me to do it? It's enough attribution that I raised the issue, no need for a PR if I'm not even directly planning to contribute