Intent to Ship: Intl.Locale.prototype.variants

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Contact emails

ft...@google.com

Specification

https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-Intl.Locale.prototype.variants

Summary

Add Intl.Locale.prototype.variants as stated in https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-Intl.Locale.prototype.variants and also accept "variants" in option bag in Intl.Locale consturctor as in https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-updatelanguageid The changes to ECMA402 is merged in https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/pull/960 and the test code in test262 are merged in in https://github.com/tc39/test262/pull/4474/

Blink component

Blink>JavaScript>Internationalization

Web Feature ID

intl-locale

Motivation

TC39 already approve for the change so it is now part of ECMA402 spec.

Initial public proposal

No information provided

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Issues addressed

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1970161) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/141

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: Strongly positive (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/Locale/variants)

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

No

Debuggability

No information provided

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

Yes

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes
Test262 https://github.com/tc39/test262/tree/main/test/intl402/Locale 'intl402/Locale/constructor-getter-order': 'intl402/Locale/constructor-options-throwing-getters': 'intl402/Locale/constructor-options-variants-invalid': 'intl402/Locale/constructor-options-variants-valid': 'intl402/Locale/getters-grandfathered': 'intl402/Locale/getters-missing': 'intl402/Locale/prototype/variants/name': 'intl402/Locale/prototype/variants/prop-desc':

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

No information provided

Non-finch justification

No information provided

Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Availability expectation

Feature is available on Web Platform Baseline within 12 months of launch in Chrome.

Adoption expectation

Feature is considered a best practice for some use case within 12 months of reaching Web Platform baseline.

Non-OSS dependencies

Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open source repository and its open-source dependencies to function?

NO

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop	144
Shipping on Android	144
Shipping on WebView	144

Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

No information provided

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4709921706868736?gate=5072143612248064

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/68e5bd35.050a0220.3258b8.05f2.GAE%40google.com
Ready for Trial: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/i6QEHcH_fiI/m/4xUyZbSvAAAJ

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