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cldr-compact-number
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Compact number formatting based on CLDR locale data. Particularly useful for statistical data, showing financial numbers in charts, and abbreviating number of ratings across a range of languages.
1234 is converted to 1K in English101234 is converted to 101K in English and 101.1K if need 1 significant digit1234 is converted to 1 mil in Español101234 is converted to 101,1 mil in Español if need 1 significant digit1234 is converted to 1234 in Japanese101234 is converted to 10.1万 in Japanese if need 1 significant digitDepends on data from cldr-numbers-full. Here is the related proposal for Compact Decimal Format that this addon is based on. This is why there are no browser API's baked into something like Intl.NumberFormat.
npm install cldr-compact-number --save
The following APIs take the language code as the the second argument based on ISO 639-1. You can also pass en_GB and we will normalize it to en-GB as well.
We default this library with en localeData. What is localeData?
localeData for most cases comes through a build tool. You define what languages you want upfront so as to avoid bloating your application bundle and the build tool parses CLDR data and formats it. See priv/ for examples of what shape the data should be in if you want to manually construct this data.
import compactFormat from 'cldr-compact-number';
compactFormat(19634, 'en', localeData);
// 19K
compactFormat(19634, 'en', localeData, {
significantDigits: 1,
minimumFractionDigits: 1,
maximumFractionDigits: 2
});
// 19.6K
compactFormat(101, 'en', localeData, {
significantDigits: 1,
financialFormat: true
});
// 0.1M
compactFormat(19634, 'ja', localeData);
// 2万
compactFormat(19634, 'es', localeData, { significantDigits: 1 });
// 19,6 mil
toLocaleString."Wait, I thought this addon was for compact number formatting?" Well it can be a misnomer depending on the language. Let's look at some examples.
This doesn't seem shorter!!!! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
compactFormat(101000, 'en', localeData, { long: true });
// 101 thousand
But this does! ʘ‿ʘ
compactFormat(101000, 'ja', localeData, { long: true });
// 101万
So we will just go with cldr-compact-number for now.
Currently this only shortens with latin digits 0..9
For your information, known number systems include:
[adlm, ahom, arab, arabext, armn, armnlow, bali, beng, bhks, brah, cakm, cham, cyrl, deva, ethi, fullwide, geor, grek, greklow, gujr, guru, hanidays, hanidec, hans, hansfin, hant, hantfin, hebr, hmng, java, jpan, jpanfin, kali, khmr, knda, lana, lanatham, laoo, latn, lepc, limb, mathbold, mathdbl, mathmono, mathsanb, mathsans, mlym, modi, mong, mroo, ...]
git clone git@github.com:snewcomer/cldr-compact-number.gitcd cldr-compact-numbernpm installnpm run test – Runs the test suite on the current Ember versionThis project is licensed under the MIT License.
FAQs
Compact number formatting logic
The npm package cldr-compact-number receives a total of 13,200 weekly downloads. As such, cldr-compact-number popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cldr-compact-number demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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