Need improved localization of numeric abbreviations

[mindgraffiti]

Internal ref: p99K0U-SE-p2

For some places in the UI, we truncate the sales amount and use an abbreviation. For the US, these are k (thousands), m (millions), and b (billions) respectively. When I searched Stack Overflow, I found this discussion, suggesting the use of k, M, G, (because metric measurements are common) but no code samples or libraries on how this has been handled previously were listed in the discussion.

We might be able to adopt a similar approach as this GitHub project https://github.com/WizardMac/DSShortNumberFormatter.

WCAndroid has previously encountered this issue as well and did not find an immediate solution.

To Do

• Research: are there any existing libraries or framework we could use?
• What kind of time requirement would be needed for building our own?
• Timebox and experiment with writing some sample code to test feasibility

Android issue tracking: woocommerce/woocommerce-android#671

[bummytime]

@ctarda had some good points on the way numbers are truncated in Asian languages which we should also consider.

[bummytime]

It's also worth mentioning that we need to consider how changing this abbreviation logic would work given the way we formatting currency based on the WC site settings.

Example: user is physically located in Western Europe, but their WC site is setup using US settings:

How do we resolve this?

[astralbodies]

We've removed abbreviations/rounding from the app.