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TwystO
TwystO

Reputation: 2562

Strange behaviour with the NumberFormatter class

I'm currently playing around with the NumberFormatter class, but I noticed a strange behaviour.

I'm trying to have two fraction digits, but depending on the PHP version, sometimes the result is correct and sometimes I only have a single fraction digit.

$formatter = new \NumberFormatter("fr_FR", \NumberFormatter::PADDING_POSITION);
$formatter->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS, 0);
$formatter->setAttribute(\NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, 2);

echo $formatter->format(12345);

Here is a snippet that illustrate my purpose: https://3v4l.org/9kFeb

The result is 12,34 k in some versions, 12,3 k in others.

I'm curious to know what's going on, is it my example that's wrong?

What I've tried:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 59

Answers (1)

Your Common Sense
Your Common Sense

Reputation: 157915

Judging by version numbers, it looks exactly like a bug that has been fixed, in the versions released on 11 Apr 2024 (8.1.28, 8.2.18, 8.3.5).

Though I cannot find a relevant entry in the release notes. The only rational explanation I can come up with is that some other fix collaterally fixed this one as well.

Or, it could have been fixed in the underlying library and came into effect when PHP dependencies have been updated. Which seems even more plausible because PHP uses Unicode Consortium's ICU library for its Intl extension.

Upvotes: 1

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