On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:19:44 GMT, Andy Goryachev <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> The code should employ `MessageFormat`. You only need to modify the English
>> resource bundles, i.e., `basic.properties`, the rest will be taken care of
>> by the g11n process.
>
> In this case, I would suggest to use straight number.
>
> If you notice, the lengths are listed as {0} KB, {0} MB, {0} GB (there are no
> terabytes, I see), and "1023 bytes" would make the string too long and might
> case ellipses to appear.
>
> Also, the threshold might be set at <= 999 instead of 1024. The reason is
> group separator - the user might prefer to see 1,023 instead of 1023.
>
> Ideally, there should be a pluggable policy (formatter) to format the lengths
> to the user's liking.
>
> To summarize,
> 0...999 -> "0" ... "999"
> 1000 ... 1023 -> "1 KB"
Another option is to use `java.text.CompactNumberFormat` which can handle those
K/M/B suffixes nicely.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9327
