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Intl instead of cldr #10660

Closed goldim closed 2 months ago

goldim commented 3 months ago

In qooxdoo we use a node package "CLDR" for internalization. This package requires cldr-data which weights around 250 MG. And so dependencies are duplicated twice because of known-good folder this size will be 500 MB.

I've checked there is Internalization API already exists for this purposes.

I think about moving to this API. What do you think? I checked it has introduced in 2011-2014 maybe there already was discussion about it.

johnspackman commented 3 months ago

So long as it can provide all of the values that we need, including to NodeJS then that sounds like good idea.

We copy a lot of data out of CLDR, but it looks like (a) not much of it is used and (b) it's all abstracted into qx.locale.* classes anyway - I've only done a really simple search for "cldr_", but it seems that qx.locale.Date has eg getMonthNames and getDateFormat, qx.locale.Number has eg getDecimalSeparator, and qx.locale.String has methods for quotes.

goldim commented 3 months ago

@johnspackman agree, I did some searches too and if cldr is not used somehow in compiler files and only in qx.locale package then it could be simply moved on new standard API.

goldim commented 2 months ago

@johnspackman opened a discussion about problems of migrating.