This possibly falls into the category of something that should be on the Google group (and actually I did ask there too ;) but I think it also exposes something not documented very well and maybe this discussion can lead to something that can be added to the docs.
I've worked with the Globalization API before (well, for a blog post: http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/11/15/Testing-Globalization-Sup port-in-PhoneGap-22). The API works great, but the async nature of it makes it very difficult for what I'd consider to be 'typical' usage. I'd imagine that - in many cases - a developer would have a set of dynamic data, let's say sales figures, that they want to format for the end user's locale. In order to do this with numberToString, they have to manage async call backs for every request. Doable with deferreds, but not easy. I noticed this past week that part of the API describes getting back the pattern for formatting. For example: http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.5.0/cordova_globalization_globalization.md.ht ml#globalization.getNumberPattern So my immediate thought was - cool - I could use this and then apply the formats to numbers in a simpler sync process. But it isn't documented how one actually *uses* these patterns. I'm thinking it may be obvious (hence the lack of documentation), but if anyone could give me a hand to understanding it I'd greatly appreciate it. -Raymond Camden
