Add support for generating Roman Numerals

[matthewmayer]

Clear and concise description of the problem

It would be useful to be able to generate roman numerals, e.g. for sections of a fake document, or as a fake pattern to be used in another pattern like "Super Bowl XXVII".

Suggested solution

faker.number.romanNumeral({min:1, max: 100}) //XVII

min would default to 1 (you can't write 0 in roman numerals). max would probably be limited to 4999 as roman numerals are not as well-defined above 5000. Maybe lowercase/uppercase options?

Not localizable. Since roman numerals are always written in latin script.

Alternative

write custom conversion code eg.

convertToRomanNumerals(faker.number.int({min:1, max:4999}))

where convertToRomanNumerals is a suitable implementation from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9083037/convert-a-number-into-a-roman-numeral-in-javascript

Additional context

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[WikiRik]

Would indeed be interesting at times to have this. I personally see no need for numerals above 4999 or lowercases ones. Min/max is indeed good to have.

[AmaanRS]

Should i implement this feature ?

[matthewmayer]

Should i implement this feature ?

We normally wait until a feature has 10 GitHub upvotes. It's nearly there 😀

[ST-DDT]

@AmaanRS Do you need roman numerals by string length (range) or by value range?