Intl.Locale.prototype.variants

Category: JavaScript
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Proposed (Chrome Proposed)
Intent stage: None

Summary

Add Intl.Locale.prototype.variants as stated in https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-Intl.Locale.prototype.variants and also accept "variants" in option bag in Intl.Locale consturctor as in https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-updatelanguageid The changes to ECMA402 is merged in https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/pull/960 and the test code in test262 are merged in in https://github.com/tc39/test262/pull/4474/

Motivation

TC39 already approve for the change so it is now part of ECMA402 spec.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-Intl.Locale.prototype.variants
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/141
Safari: Shipped/Shipping — Apple said it is already shipped in Safari 26 landing commit in https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/b8b32fe6a3c5cdaf94eab51e0dfef07620ac170e https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294755
Web developers: Strongly positive

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