@phensley/cldr

cldr-engine

Internationalization in Typescript with Unicode CLDR, batteries included.

• Links
• Install
• Versioning
• Features
• Package Naming
• Goals
• License
• Affiliation

Links

• Documentation on the library API and usage.
• CodeSandbox example can be used to experiment, report bugs, etc.
• Demonstration app provides an example using React and Redux. (source code)

Install

Install the NPM package:

npm install --save @phensley/cldr

Using Yarn:

yarn add @phensley/cldr

Versioning

This project follows semantic versioning:

PATCH

• Bug fixes
• Backwards-compatible
• Resource pack compatibility maintained (packs from 1.0.0 are guaranteed to work for all 1.0.* versions)

MINOR

• New features
• Backwards-compatible
• Internal schema breaking changes (applications must load resource packs from the same major.minor version)
• CLDR data upgrades which maintain backwards-compatibility

MAJOR

• Public API breaking changes
• CLDR data upgrades which change break API compatibility (unit deprecation / renaming, etc)

Features

• Implementation folows the CLDR specification supporting CLDR version 37.0.0
• 372 modern locales
• Compact resource packs containing all scripts and regions for a given language
• Language tag parsing, locale resolution, and distance-based enhanced language matching for improved locale fallback
• Fast, compact, and extensible ICU message formatting
• Both string and parts formatting for flexible markup styling
• Date time, date interval, and relative time formatting
• Full IANA and CLDR timezone support covering the full range of IANA timezone untils, automatic handling of deprecated timezone identifiers and aliases
• Gregorian, ISO-8601, Japanese, Persian and Buddhist calendars.
• Date formatting using flexible skeleton-based pattern matching
• Date addition, date subtraction, date differencing and "field of visual difference" calculation
• Cardinal and ordinal pluralization rules
• Decimal numbers, currencies, units, and unit sequence formatting, with 168 different units
• Arbitrary precision decimal math
• Display names for languages, scripts, regions, currencies, units, calendar fields, etc
• List formatting, measurement system, character order, and line order information
• Optional Unit conversion package to convert quantities between CLDR units

Package Naming

Packages with the cldr-* prefix represent pieces of the larger library and are designed to work together. The @phensley/cldr package pulls in the full functionality of the library.

Packages without the cldr-* prefix can be used in an application individually without pulling in the larger core library.

You can use any of the packages independent of the rest of the library:

package	size	dependencies
@phensley/cldr-utils
@phensley/decimal
@phensley/language-tag
@phensley/locale		size includes language-tag package
@phensley/locale-matcher		size includes locale and language-tag packages
@phensley/messageformat		size includes cldr-utils, decimal, and plurals packages
@phensley/plurals		size includes decimal package
@phensley/timezone		size includes cldr-utils package
@phensley/unit-converter		size includes cldr-utils and decimal packages

Goals

• Support a broad set of CLDR features in the browser "out of the box".
• Support all scripts and regions for a language in a single compact resource pack.
• Resolve the CLDR data size and dimensionality problems.
  • In the case of English: ~40MB of JSON for 105 locales is compressed to a 194KB resource pack (44KB gzip), a factor of approx. 200:1 uncompressed, 1000:1 with gzip compression.
• No additional library dependencies required.
• No custom extraction of CLDR data or precompilation of formatters required.
• Correctness and consistency across browsers, Node.js, and other Javascript ES5 runtime environments.
• Provide type-safety, reducing programming errors.
• No familiarity with CLDR structure is required for developers to use this library.
• High performance.
• Arbitrary precision decimal math, to achieve the same accuracy in the browser as on the server.

License

Copyright 2018-present Patrick Hensley

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Affiliation

This project is not affiliated with the Unicode Inc. or the Unicode CLDR project.

Changelog

[1.9.2]

Fixed/Changed

• Upgrade to tzdb 2024b