Intl.NumberFormat Unified API Proposal

Category: JavaScript
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 77)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: Tests under tc39/test262 includes many tests to test this API. Tests with “features: [Intl.NumberFormat-unified]” under test/intl402/NumberFormat/ Also tests under src/v8/test/intl/number-format/unified/

Summary

This feature improves Intl.NumberFormat by adding support for measurement units, currency and sign display policies, and scientific and compact notation.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-unified-intl-numberformat/
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=8515

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=intl-numberformat-unified-api-proposal
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Intl.NumberFormat%20Unified%20API%20Proposal
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Intl.NumberFormat%20Unified%20API%20Proposal
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Intl.NumberFormat%20Unified%20API%20Proposal

Docs: https://goo.gl/ZAtL1f

Samples: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-unified-intl-numberformat

Explainers: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-unified-intl-numberformat

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