Allow SI prefixes to be set in locale. #43
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This could serve as an escape hatch for somebody who wanted to support custom SI prefixes. This could be used to solve d3#33 (binary prefixes) or it could be used to support something custom like American english numbers (1,000,000,000 => 1B [billion] instead of 1G [giga]).
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This does however confuse the term SI prefix. Maybe a better solution would be to support more than one type of prefix. For example, we could have: |
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This wouldn’t address binary prefixes directly; binary prefixes use base two rather than base ten. For example the value 2^20 = 1,048,576 might be formatted as 1.00 Mi with a binary prefix but 1.05 M with a decimal SI prefix. The simplicity of the implementation is attractive, but it feels wrong to overload the meaning of SI prefix since the whole idea is that SI is an international standard. Also, it’s not too hard to wrap a formatter function to replace the SI prefix with something else after formatting. |
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Closing in favor of #70. Thank you for your contribution! |
This could serve as an escape hatch for somebody who wanted to support custom SI prefixes. This could be used to solve #33 (binary prefixes) or it could be used to support something custom like American english numbers (1,000,000,000 => 1B [billion] instead of 1G [giga]).