Previously, LibUnicode would store the values of a keyword as a Vector.
For example, the locale "en-u-ca-abc-def" would have its keyword "ca"
stored as {"abc, "def"}. Then, canonicalization would occur on each of
the elements in that Vector.
This is incorrect because, for example, the keyword value "true" should
only be dropped if that is the entire value. That is, the canonical form
of "en-u-kb-true" is "en-u-kb", but "en-u-kb-abc-true" does not change
for canonicalization. However, we would canonicalize that locale as
"en-u-kb-abc".
LibUnicode has to hard-code some aliases because the related data is not
available in the JSON export of CLDR. Turns out there is a ticket to add
this data in an upcoming CLDR release. Add a link to that ticket for
reference.
This data informs consumers how to join lists of values. For example,
in en-US, the list ["a", "b", "c"] formatted to a string should become
"a, b, and c".
The UnicodeLocale generator will need to parse canonicalized locale
strings, and will require using these methods. However, the generator
cannot depend on LibUnicode because Locale.cpp within LibUnicode already
depends on the generated file. Instead, defining the methods that the
generator needs inline allows the generator to use them without linking
against LibUnicode.
Add a method to remove an extension type from the locale's extension set
and methods to convert a locale and language to a string without
canonicalization. Each of these will be used by LibJS.
CLDR contains a set of likely subtag data where, given a locale, you can
resolve what is the most likely language, script, or territory of that
locale. This data is needed for resolving territory aliases. These
aliases might contain multiple territories, and we need to resolve which
of those territories is most likely correct for a locale.
Note that the likely subtag data is quite huge (a few thousand entries).
As an optimization encouraged by the spec, we only generate the smallest
subset of this data that we actually need (about 150 entries).
Calendar subtags are a bit of an odd-man-out in that we must match the
variants "ethiopic-amete-alem" in that order, without any other variant
in the locale. So a separate method is needed for this, and we now defer
sorting the variant list until after other canonicalization is done.
Unicode TR35 defines how locale subtag aliases should be emplaced when
converting a locale to canonical form. For most subtags, it is a simple
substitution. Language subtags depend on context; for example, the
language "sh" should become "sr-Latn", but if the original locale has a
script subtag already ("sh-Cyrl"), then only the language subtag of the
alias should be taken ("sr-Latn").
To facilitate this, we now make two passes when canonicalizing a locale.
In the first pass, we convert the LocaleID structure to canonical syntax
(where the conversions all happen in-place). In the second pass, we form
the canonical string based on the canonical syntax.
CLDR contains a set of aliases for languages, territories, etc. that no
longer are meant to be used (e.g. due to deprecation). For example, the
language "aam" is deprecated and should be canonicalized as "aas".
Originally, it was convenient to store the parsed Unicode locale data as
views into the original string being parsed. But to implement locale
aliases will require mutating the data that was parsed. To prepare for
that, store the parsed data as proper strings.
Once canonical extensions are implemented, the number of:
if (optional_string.has_value() {
builder.append('-');
builder.append(optional_string->to_lowercase_string());
}
Will be quite large. This commit just adds a helper lambda to handle
this pattern to prevent this function from becoming even more enormous.
This is preparatory work to read locale extensions. The parser currently
enforces that the entire string is consumed. But to parse extensions,
parse_unicode_locale_id() will need parse_unicode_language_id() to just
stop parsing on the first segment that does not match the language ID
grammar. It will also need to know where the parsing stopped. Both of
these needs are fulfilled by GenericLexer.
The caveat is that we can no longer simply split the parsed string on
separator characters. So parse_unicode_language_id() now operates as a
small state machine.
This commit is preemptive to upcoming commits which add more subtags to
the CLDR generator. Rather than generating a giant HashMap containing
all data, generate more (smaller) Array-based tables. This mimics the
UCD generator. This also allows simpler lookups at runtime since we can
generate index-based lookups into the smaller tables rather easily.
Without this change, adding the remaining locale subtags would result
in the generation and compilation of UnicodeLocale.cpp taking about 30s
on my machine. With this change, it takes about half that. Additionally,
the size of the generated file reduces by about 1.5MB.
ECMA-402 requires validating user input against the EBNF grammar for
Unicode locales described in TR-35: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35
This commit adds validators for that grammar, as well as other helper to
e.g. canonicalize a locale string.
