Shane F. Carr

Yeah, we could return a wrapped thing, or a string reference, if we have the data.

Well, for the best user experience, a wrapped `u16` would still want to retain a reference to the string interning structure or data payload so that it can be dereferenced...

> I was assuming that the list of interned strings would be immutable and global so wouldn't need a reference to it. But this assumption might be wrong? We have...

@robertbastian has been thinking a lot about this

I mostly agree with @robertbastian except that I believe normalization is still important, not only because it is required by ECMA-402. If you include normalization, @robertbastian's list is exactly what...

The proposed `.parse_normalize()` function returns the two things an ECMAScript implementations needs: a `TimeZone` for formatting, based on the CLDR equivalence class, and a `&'data str`, an interned, normalized string...

> FYI, @sffc @robertbastian and I had an impromptu chat last week about the questions above and I think we made good progress. Do you guys want to post a...

> > IanaParserExtended also has two functions returning iterators, both returning an iterator of data strings: > > > > * iter_all() > > * iter_canonical() > > Should we...

Triaged this in the list of requests for new units: https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/labels/new%20unit I'd love to add all 200+ CLDR units, but unfortunately that would increase the download size of browsers, so...

Please note that I did not go through and delete all of the existing BD data. Should I?