Globalize

Globalize
Original author(s) Rafael Xavier de Souza
Developer(s) jQuery Foundation
Initial release April 23, 2015 (2015-04-23)
Stable release 1.1.0 (January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20))
Development status Active
Written in JavaScript
Platform See Browser support
Type JavaScript library
License MIT[1]
Website github.com/jquery/globalize

Globalize is a cross-platform JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that leverages the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR).

Overview

Globalize provides number formatting and parsing, date and time formatting and parsing, currency formatting, unit formatting, message formatting (ICU message format pattern), and plural support.

Design Goals:

Globalize is based on the Unicode Consortium's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. CLDR is constantly updated and is used by many large applications and operating systems, to always have access to the most accurate and up-to-date locale data.

Usage

Since Globalize doesn't bundle any localization data, it has to be first initalized using some CLDR content:

var Globalize = require( "globalize" );
Globalize.load( require( "cldr-data" ).entireSupplemental() );
Globalize.load( require( "cldr-data" ).entireMainFor( "en", "es" ) );

Globalize("en").formatDate(new Date());
// > "11/27/2015"

Globalize("es").formatDate(new Date());
// > "27/11/2015"

History

Globalize was first announced in October 2010 by John Resig[2] and originally developed by David Reed, sponsored by Microsoft, under the name jQuery Globalization plugin,[3] built on top of an export of the .net locale database.[4] From there the dependency on jQuery was removed[5] and the project renamed to Globalize.[6] In a much larger effort, the project was entirely rewritten on top of Unicode's CLDR, making use of its comprehensive and accurate coverage of all kinds of localization data.[7]

References

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