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Cldr Units version 2.6.0

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@kipcole9 kipcole9 released this 25 Aug 18:51

Enhancements

  • Add Cldr.Unit.localize/3 to support converting a given unit into units that are familiar to a given territory. For example, given a unit of #Unit<2, :meter> is would normally be expected to show this as [#Unit<:foot, 5>, #Unit<:inch, 11>]. The data to support these conversions is returned by Cldr.Unit.unit_preferences/0. An example:
  iex> height = Cldr.Unit.new(1.8, :meter)
  iex> Cldr.Unit.localize height, :person, territory: :US, style: :informal
  [#Unit<:foot, 5>, #Unit<:inch, 11>]
  • Note that conversion is dependent on context. The context above is :person reflecting that we are referring to the height of a person. For units of length category, the other contexts available are :rainfall, :snowfall, :vehicle, :visibility and :road. Using the above example with the context of :rainfall we see
  iex> Cldr.Unit.localize height, :rainfall, territory: :US
  [#Unit<:inch, 71>]
  • Adds a :per option to Cldr.Unit.to_string/3. This option leverages the per formatting style to allow compound units to be printed. For example, assume want to emit a string which represents "kilograms per second". There is no such unit defined in CLDR (or perhaps anywhere!). But if we define the unit unit = Cldr.Unit.new(:kilogram, 20) we can then execute Cldr.Unit.to_string(unit, per: :second). Each locale defines a specific way to format such a compount unit. Usually it will return something like 20 kilograms/second

  • Adds Cldr.Unit.unit_preferences/0 to map units into a territory preference alternative unit

  • Adds Cldr.Unit.measurement_systems/0 that identifies the unit system in use for a territory

  • Adds Cldr.Unit.measurement_system_for/1 that returns the measurement system in use for a given territory. The result will be one of :metric, :US or :UK.