Unicode CLDR Project:

Common Locale Data Repository

Introduction

Latest Release: CLDR 1.5.1
CLDR Releases (Downloads)
CLDR 1.6 Tentative Schedule: 2008
Start	Phase	Done
-	DTD/spec/tool additions (p1)	02-16
02-19	Survey tool public β (p2)	03-07
03-21	Data submission	04-30
05-01	Data vetting and resolution	05-09
05-10	Final data/structure verification and correction	06-02
06-06	Final Candidate available	06-27
07-03	*Target release date*	-
For notification of changes on this page or others, see Notification Services.

The Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages. CLDR is by far the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies for their software internationalization and localization: adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks as formatting of dates, times, time zones, numbers, and currency values; sorting text; choosing languages or countries by name; and many others.

For a set of slides with an overview of CLDR, see CLDR Overview.
For charts showing different aspects of the CLDR data, see CLDR Charts.
For access to released data or data under development, see CLDR Releases (Downloads).
For access to data under development, see CLDR Survey Tool.
For filing other bugs or enhancement requests, see CLDR Bug Reports.
For a description of the process of collecting and resolving data, and how the technical committee operates, see CLDR Process.
For announcements about CLDR, see Unicode Press Releases.
To get on the CLDR user mailing list, see Unicode CLDR Mailing List.
For information on transliteration, see Transliteration Guidelines.

CLDR uses the XML format provided by UTS #35: Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). LDML is a format used not only for CLDR, but also for general interchange of locale data, such as in Microsoft's .NET.

For information about joining the Unicode Consortium, see Unicode Consortium.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments for special contributions to successive versions of CLDR and LDML are in the Acknowledgments section of UTS #35: Locale Data Markup Language (LDML).

Many other people have made significant contributions to CLDR and LDML, including the following:

Mati Allouche (מתתיהו אלוש),
Tarek Abou Aly (طارق أبو على),
A S Alam (ਅਮਨਪਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਆਲਮ),
Serpil Zengin Akkaya,
Patrick Andries,
Steingrímur Árnason,
Pantelis Assimakopoulos,
Omi Azad (অমি আজাদ),

Dwayne Bailey,
James Ballentine,
Alberto Barbati,
Shu Bei (舒蓓),
Philips Benjamin,
Ernest v.d. Boogaard,
Saniye Boran,
Alexander Buloichik (Аляксандар Булойчык),

Alejandra Canoura Pérez,
Avery Chan,
Ramon Casha,
Alexis Cheng (鄭宗堯),
Séamus Ó Ciardhuáin,
Suresh Chandrasekharan (സുരേഷ് ചന്ദ്രശേഖരന്),
Helena Shih Chapman (施尙吟),
Irina Chausova,
Catherine Christaki (Κατερίνα Χρηστάκη),
Lee Collins,

Angelo Dalli,
Mark Davis,
Natalie Davitashvili (ნატალია დავითაშვილი),
Simon Dean,
Andrea Decorte,
Jeno Demeczky,
Puri Rodríguez Díaz,
Focko Dijksterhuis,
Ivailo Djilianov (Ивайло Джилянов),
Sivaraj Doddannan,
Thomas Dujardin,
Đoàn Anh Đức,

Peter Edberg,
John Emmons,
Eva Albertsdotter Enblom,
Jean-Jacques Enser,
Behdad Esfahbod (بهداد اسفهبد),
Michael Everson,
Doug Ewell,

Ahmad Farrag (أحمد فرّاج),
Doug Felt,
Elisabete Ferreira,
Christopher Fynn (ཀརྨ་སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་འཛིན།),
Elsebeth Flarup,

William Gan (甘玮亚),
Tom Garland,
Mark Garrett,
Yun Fang Ge (葛云芳),
Deborah Goldsmith,
Cristina Gonçalves
Hélène Guillerme,

Mine Halıcı,
Chris Hansten,
Yannis Haralambous (Γιάννης Χαραλάμπους),
Andy Heninger,
Hideki Hiura,
Håvard Hjulstad,
Susan Maria Howard,
Jarkko Hietaniemi,
Dominic Hung (洪淦輝),

Laurențiu Iancu,
Rossi Ignatova (Роси Игнатова),

Cibu C. J. (സിബു സി.ജെ.),
Denis Jacquerye,
Jaganadh.G (ജഗന്നാഥ്.ജി),
Jama Musse Jama,
Waris Abdukerim Janbaz (ۋارىس ئابدۇكېرىم جانباز),
Ivana Jelisavcic (Ивана Јелисавчић),
Ole Kristian Julseth,

Ashraf-ul-Kabir (اشرف الکبير),
Alexander Kachur (Александр Качур),
Yasuyuki Kagawa (香川康之),
Kent Karlsson,
Walter Keutgen,
Manfred Kiefer,
Rob Kiely,
Akio Kido,
Yuri Kirghisov,
Erkki Kolehmainen,
Troy Korjuslommi,
Nicha Kumchokpattaraporn (ณิชชา กำโชคภัทรพร),

Susanna Laaksonen,
Rici Lake,
Antoine Leca,
Calvin Lee (李灝),
Peter Linsley,
Alan Liu,
Marc Liyanage,
Audun Lona,
Steven R. Loomis,

Yajie Ma (马亚杰),
Eric Mader,
Sasha Maric (Саша Марић),
Boris Matveev (Борис Матвеев),
Dary Mihova (Дари Михова),
Sonia Mokrani,
Eric Muller,

Mihai Niță,
Raj Neettiyath (രാജ് നീട്ടിയത്ത്),
Kentaroh Noji (野地健太郎),
Peter Nugent,

Sandra O'Donnell,
Jelena Oertel,

Irina Parshina,
Alberto Escudero-Pascual,
Charles Pau (鲍景超),
Søren Thing Pedersen,
Åke Persson,
Valeriy Perunov,
Eddy Petrișor,
Radi Pipev (Ради Пипев),
Roozbeh Pournader (روزبه پورنادر),
Behdad Pournader (بهداد پورنادر),
ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ),
Alexey Proskuryakov (Алексей Проскуряков),
Atso Puronen,

Samphan Raruenrom (สัมพันธ์ ระรื่ืนรมย์),
Eike Rathke,
Vytautas Rekus,
George Rhoten,
Charles Riley,
Erdal Ronahi,
Jonathan Rosenne (יונתן רוזן),
Klaas Ruppel,

Reiko Saito (斎藤玲子),
Saravanan (ശരവണന്),
Markus Scherer,
Dale Schultz,
Theresa Hieatt-Smith,
Javier Sola,
Baldev Soor,
Miguel Sousa,
Suwit Srivilairith (สุวิทย์ ศรีวิไลฤทธิ์),
William J. Sullivan,
Jolanta Szczerba,

Anna Taranova (Анна Таранова),
Yury Tarasievich (Юры Тарасевіч),
Mike Tardif,
Maiko Nagae Tasaki (田崎麻衣子),
Michael Twomey,
Dacijus Turauskas,
Teppo Turtiainen,

Yoshito Umaoka (馬岡由人)

Dick Veerhar,
Philippe Verdy,
Raghuram Viswanadha (రఘురామ్ విశ్వనాథ),
Sajith VK,

Milind Wanjari,
Vladimir Weinstein (Владимир Вајнштајн),
Jarosław Włodarczyk,
Friedel Wolff,

Simos Xenitellis (Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης),
Serena Xiao (肖顺敏),

Daniel Yacob,
Jung Hyoun Yi (이정현),

Vladislav Zavyalov (Владислав Завьялов),
Weilin Zhang (张卫琳)

The first CLDR version under the sponsorship of the Unicode Consortium was version 1.1. The CLDR project was originally developed under the sponsorship of the Linux Application Development Environment (aka LADE) Workgroup of the Free Standards Group's OpenI18N (formerly known as Linux Internationalization Initiative or Li18nux) team. CLDR 1.0 was approved on 2004.01.16 by the OpenI18N steering committee. The founding members of the workgroup were IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to the CLDR 1.0 and LDML 1.0: Helena Shih Chapman, Mark Davis, Simon Dean, Deborah Goldsmith, Steven R Loomis, Kentaroh Noji, George Rhoten, Baldev Soor, Michael Twomey, Ram Viswanadha and Vladimir Weinstein. Special thanks to Akio Kido, Hideki Hiura, Tom Garland, and the OpenI18N organization for the sponsorship of this activity, and to the ICU team for hosting the CVS repository and collecting and managing the data for the project.