Hi Addison, Just a small correction, the strawman proposal is actually at http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:i18n_api.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Phillips, Addison <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I reviewed the thread at [1] and wanted to contribute a few comments on the > strawman proposal at [2]. > > I think this effort is important. Many of us have struggled with the lack > of ready internationalization support within ECMAScript and server-side or > custom processing are both unsatisfying as a solution. During the W3C TPAC > last year, some of us interested in this problem met with TC39 and made a > number of suggestions [3] that I hope will be taken up for > consideration---some of these are covered by this proposal. > > WRT the strawman, I had these comments: > > 1. The Locale class should have a matches() method or methods that permit > locale/language negotiation to be implemented. RFC 4647 matching (either > filtering or lookup) are far more common than pure equality checks. > > 2. Should there be a Locale.getDefault? > > 3. Should there be a TimeZone.getDefault()? > > 4. The Collator doesn't include rule-based collation? Is that planned for > the future? > > 5. I know that other APIs are planned for the future, but message and > number format are equally (often more) important than dates. I wouldn't want > them omitted in an initial implementation. > > I hope to see progress on this work in the future. > > Regards, > > Addison > > [1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2010-June/011380.html > [2] > http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AW406aVETP5_ZGh0dHJxNXZfMGM4azV2a2Ro&hl=en > [3] http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/JavaScriptInternationalization > > Addison Phillips > > Internationalization is not a feature. > It is an architecture. > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Nebojša Ćirić
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