This one is for you, @hotdogsladies.
FAQ:
1) This is a proof-of-concept; no promises
2) I don't know when it'll ship, if I can even get it production-ready
3) Data coverage (Wikidata) is okay but not stellar; not all actors will have their heights shown
4) I'll try to use sensible units for countries that aren't idiots like us
I think I've got units working for countries that make sense.
This is all based on your setting in Settings → General → Language & Region → Measurement System.
🇺🇸/🇬🇧 get feet/inches.
The rest of the world gets cm.
I genuinely don't know how this will play in 🇨🇦, so, uh, good luck, northern friends? 😬
Related: is there a way to force either Measurement or LengthFormatter to use feet/inches? I see that this is a thing, but I want to be able to override the default Locale.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/lengthformatter/1416517-isforpersonheightuse/
I tried setting a unit of feet, but it still shows feet and fractional feet, rather than inches:
@caseyliss @vpsteinmann @_nd_ You can use ˋusage: .asProvidedˋ (without needing .locale()) to use the measurement unit you pass in the 1st place, independently of what the locale typically uses
Print out your various measurements. Xcode 13+ The Measurement API inside of Foundation is a powerful toolkit for converting and displaying units. As of Xcode 14, this is the canonical list of Dimensions 1 that are supported: Unit Description Base unit Custom Usage? Unit Acceleration Unit for acceleration meters per second squared (m/s²) No Unit Angle Unit for planar angle and rotation degrees (°) No Unit Area Unit for area square meters (m²) No Unit Mass Unit for concentration of mass grams per liter (g/L) No Unit Dispersion Unit for dispersion parts per million (ppm) No Unit Duration Unit for duration of time seconds (sec) No Unit Charge Unit for electric charge coulombs (C) No Unit Current Unit for electric current amperes (A) No Unit Difference Unit for electric potential difference volts (V) No Unit Resistance Unit for electric resistance ohms (Ω) No Unit Energy Unit for energy joules (J) Yes Unit Frequency Unit for frequency hertz (Hz) No Unit Efficiency Unit for fuel efficiency liters per 100 kilometers (L/100km) No Unit Illuminance Unit for illuminance lux (lx) No Unit Storage Unit for quantities of information bytes (b) Yes 2 Xcode 14+ Unit Length Unit for length meters (m) Yes Unit Mass Unit for mass kilograms (kg) Yes Unit Power Unit for power watts (W) No Unit Pressure Unit for pressure newtons per square meter (N/m²) No Unit Speed Unit for speed meters per second (m/s) No Unit Temperature Unit for temperature kelvin (K) Yes Unit Volume Unit for volume liters (L) Yes Measurement is special in that the localized string output can vary significantly depending on the Locale used by the format style.
@vpsteinmann @_nd_ zomg I love you both. This is SO MUCH cleaner
(Diff shown so you can see why I was “😬" about my first crack at this)
@caseyliss Any possibility of toggling the measure system? Say if I long press on cm I get feet/inches?
(As you probably know, Canada is inconsistently metric, and although our temps are Celsius and gas is in litres, our human heights are generally feet and inches.)
@caseyliss The Apple Watch hiking units are tied to the same setting and it took me so long to work out why my walks were defaulting to yards and not meters.
I changed it ok, but now all my driving distances in CarPlay are in km 🥴. Kinda just wish the UK would finish the move to metric.
It’s the right choice for the app though. Is it something you could tap to switch between the units maybe?
@caseyliss After digging a bit more, it looks like you should consider using `.abbreviated` instead of `.narrow` since the latter attempts to show the unit “in the shortest form possible” and ends up omitting the space.
With the following code, I get the expected result, with a non-breaking space between the value and the unit :)
```
Measurement<UnitLength>(value: 1.89, unit: .meters).formatted(.measurement(width: .abbreviated, usage: .personHeight))
```
@caseyliss we use centimetres in the uk, Casey. Please don’t encourage the fascists from imposing Imperial measures. This is a thing they are doing.
(Shout out to all the Neoplatonist metrologists who know how to use inches, feet, various miles, and degrees, to engage in a humanistic, early antiquity world view.)
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