add unicode number forms

[derhuerst]

Number Forms like ¼ would really make sense, since they are non-ASCII and have a really nice fallback (1/4).

[sindresorhus]

Can you show an example of how it would look like using it from figures?

[derhuerst]

Something like figures.1by4 or figures.oneByFour with yields in ¼.

[sindresorhus]

Probably not figures.1by4 as it's invalid JS, but yeah, sounds useful. PR welcome :)

[sindresorhus]

While I have you here. I've been thinking about adding a method to replace unicode with the fallbacks. So you could do figures('¼ yezz') and it would return '¼ yezz' on OS X / Linux and '1/4 yezz' on Windows. What do you think?

[derhuerst]

Probably not figures.1by4 as it's invalid JS, but yeah, sounds useful. PR welcome :)

You're right. One could use figures[1by4] or figures['1by4']. Will do a PR with oneByFour.

So you could do figures('¼ yezz') and it would return '¼ yezz' on OS X / Linux and '1/4 yezz' on Windows. What do you think?

Isnt that essentially template strings? So this function would "just" be sugar on top?

`${figures.tick} yezz`

[sindresorhus]

Isnt that essentially template strings?

Not really. It could be a tagged template literal [0]. The point is to let you use the original unicode character in the string and have it replaced with fallbacks when not supported. In your example you have to use the verbose descriptive property access.

[0]:

figures`¼ yezz`

[SamVerschueren]

That would be a nice addition. Not sure if it should be implemented in figures or in a separate figures-replace module.

[sindresorhus]

@SamVerschueren I think it should be here. Could be the main export actually.

const figures = require('figures');

console.log(figures.tick);

console.log(figures`¼ yezz`);

[SamVerschueren]

I'm ok with that. Just wanted to make sure you considered a separate module ;).

[sindresorhus]

My unrelated idea continues here: #14

[sindresorhus]

Fixed by #13.