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Add binary prefix units
Binary units such as KiB and MiB reduce ambiguity associated with kB and MB. We have received numerous requests to add them to ECMA-402. This is currently blocked by upstream CLDR not having locale data for these units.
Upstream ticket:
https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13848
Relevant CLDR discussions:
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-7214
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11454
User requests:
- https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/issues/32#issuecomment-468145082
- https://goo.gle/devtools-si
@mathiasbynens @markusicu @macchiati
If we are just adding the prefixes, then the work could be feasible. However, it is very late in the cycle for us to be adding new data for translation, so I will add this to the CLDR agenda tomorrow.
I think it would be bounded to the following (this is the English version): 16 strings per language. Does this look right, Shane?
long
short
Mark
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:32 PM Shane F. Carr [email protected] wrote:
Binary units such as KiB and MiB reduce ambiguity associated with kB and MB. We have received numerous requests to add them to ECMA-402. This is currently blocked by upstream CLDR not having locale data for these units.
Relevant CLDR discussions:
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-7214
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11454
User requests:
- #32 (comment) https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/issues/32#issuecomment-468145082
- https://goo.gle/devtools-si
@mathiasbynens https://github.com/mathiasbynens @markusicu https://github.com/markusicu @macchiati https://github.com/macchiati
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I created a ticket for discussion. Please add comments there: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13848
Mark
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:35 PM Mark Davis ☕️ [email protected] wrote:
If we are just adding the prefixes, then the work could be feasible. However, it is very late in the cycle for us to be adding new data for translation, so I will add this to the CLDR agenda tomorrow.
I think it would be bounded to the following (this is the English version): 16 strings per language. Does this look right, Shane?
long
kibi{0} mebi{0} gibi{0} tebi{0} pebi{0} exbi{0} zebi{0} yobe{0} short
KiB{0} MiB{0} GiB{0} TiB{0} PiB{0} EiB{0} ZiB{0} YiB{0} Mark
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:32 PM Shane F. Carr [email protected] wrote:
Binary units such as KiB and MiB reduce ambiguity associated with kB and MB. We have received numerous requests to add them to ECMA-402. This is currently blocked by upstream CLDR not having locale data for these units.
Relevant CLDR discussions:
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-7214
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11454
User requests:
- #32 (comment) https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/issues/32#issuecomment-468145082
- https://goo.gle/devtools-si
@mathiasbynens https://github.com/mathiasbynens @markusicu https://github.com/markusicu @macchiati https://github.com/macchiati
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Note that I fixed the typos in the ticket to drop the B from the short forms.
Mark
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:45 PM Mark Davis ☕️ [email protected] wrote:
I created a ticket for discussion. Please add comments there: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13848
Mark
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:35 PM Mark Davis ☕️ [email protected] wrote:
If we are just adding the prefixes, then the work could be feasible. However, it is very late in the cycle for us to be adding new data for translation, so I will add this to the CLDR agenda tomorrow.
I think it would be bounded to the following (this is the English version): 16 strings per language. Does this look right, Shane?
long
kibi{0} mebi{0} gibi{0} tebi{0} pebi{0} exbi{0} zebi{0} yobe{0} short
KiB{0} MiB{0} GiB{0} TiB{0} PiB{0} EiB{0} ZiB{0} YiB{0} Mark
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:32 PM Shane F. Carr [email protected] wrote:
Binary units such as KiB and MiB reduce ambiguity associated with kB and MB. We have received numerous requests to add them to ECMA-402. This is currently blocked by upstream CLDR not having locale data for these units.
Relevant CLDR discussions:
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-7214
- https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11454
User requests:
- #32 (comment) https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/issues/32#issuecomment-468145082
- https://goo.gle/devtools-si
@mathiasbynens https://github.com/mathiasbynens @markusicu https://github.com/markusicu @macchiati https://github.com/macchiati
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Thanks. I added https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-13848?focusedCommentId=156911
Mark
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:53 AM Krzysztof Maczyński < [email protected]> wrote:
yobe{0}
should be yobi
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CLDR now contains strings for the binary prefixes:
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/en.xml#L6128
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/main/ar.xml#L10572
I had expected to see shorthand units like "KiB":
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
But it seems kibibyte and friends only have a "long" string specified.
But perhaps that'd need to be a digital-kibibyte unit in CLDR?
