Shane F. Carr

TG2 discussion: https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/blob/main/meetings/notes-2024-11-25.md#why-is-there-no-intllocaleprototypevariants-900 There were questions about motivation (most use cases for variants are better served by a corresponding Unicode extension keyword), as well as the shape of this getter...

A little more context: I think people on the call were referring to variants as "legacy" or "deprecated" because of the following issues: 1. Some variants are better represented as...

Unfortunately I believe the ordering is one of the main issues that needs to be resolved. We have two specs, IETF and UTS 35, which disagree on the ordering (preserved...

Ok, so `.variants` returning an array with the variants in UTS 35 order would be most consistent with the rest of the spec, and I think functions such as `describeSlovenianLanguageUsed`...

@eggrobin What is left on this issue?

The job, I would say _only_ job, of a specification is to guarantee interoperability between implementations. It is not interoperable if one implementation throws an error and another doesn't in...

In LDML 47, can we change the `calendar` option to be Proposed instead of Recommended so we have more flexibility to explore the behavior here?

A bit more background on the Temporal design here... (cc @mihnita) There are several ways to construct a Temporal date: 1. From an ISO-8601 format string: `Temporal.PlainDate.from("2025-01-13")` 2. From a...

@roozbehp, do you have thoughts on this? Reingold says on page 106: > The calendar is computed, by the majority of the Muslim world, starting at sunset of Thursday, July...

> My position is that your axiom is false in a general sense, even though it is objectively true in specific contexts. > > In other words, it's not that...