Intl currency formatting and minimum significant digits
On 10/22/16 12:52 AM, Zach Lym wrote:
I recently ran into a discrepancy between Chrome and Firefox's implementation of Intl's currency formatting mechanism and the official spec. I didn't want the output to have any significant digits so I used the following:
new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {maximumSignificantDigits: 0,currency: 'USD', style: 'currency', currencyDisplay: "symbol"});
This works fine on Chrome and Firefox
It does? When I do that in Firefox I get an exception:
RangeError: invalid digits value: 0
What would it even mean to have 0 significant digits? Mathematically that makes no sense; if you have a digit at all, it's presumably significant so the smallest number of significant digits that makes sense is 1. Which is what the spec and the polyfill and Firefox (and Safari; I just checked) do. Sounds like V8 just has a bug.
I filed bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5554 on V8.
I recently ran into a discrepancy between Chrome and Firefox's implementation of Intl's currency formatting mechanism and the official spec. I didn't want the output to have any significant digits so I used the following:
currency: 'USD', style: 'currency', currencyDisplay: "symbol"});
This works fine on Chrome and Firefox but the polyfill threw an error and the standard appears to require at least one significant digit.
I strongly believe the spec should be changed to remove the requirement that the output contain any significant digits.
Thank you, -Zach Lym
I recently ran into a discrepancy between Chrome and Firefox's implementation of Intl's currency formatting mechanism and the official spec. I didn't want the output to have any significant digits so I used the following: new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US', {maximumSignificantDigits: 0, currency: 'USD', style: 'currency', currencyDisplay: "symbol"}); This works fine on Chrome and Firefox but the polyfill threw an error and the standard appears to require at least one significant digit. I strongly believe the spec should be changed to remove the requirement that the output contain any significant digits. Thank you, -Zach Lym