From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@icu-project.org)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2006 - 14:08:29 CDT
There is a planned mechanism: see
http://dev.icu-project.org/cgi-bin/locale-bugs?findid=698
(This was planned for 1.4, but delayed since we didn't have enough data to
warrent adding the mechanism.)
Comments can be made on that issue by filing a Reply.
Mark
On 6/14/06, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> From: "Erkki Kolehmainen" <erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi>
> > The CLDR data is available with the help of the the Survey Tool in a
> > user friendly manner for both viewing and updates.
> > The address of the Survey Tool is http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey .
> > Right now, the Survey Tool is read only, i.e. further updates will only
> > be possible for CLDR 1.5, since 1.4 is getting ready for release.
> >
> > There is no data yet for the Romani language. Somebody has to provide
> > the base data for the language, after which one can make the necessary
> > adjustments for the region, such as Romani in Romania (or Finland).
>
> Actually, Romani (ISO 639-2 "rom") is a family of languages, with just
> Vlax Romani ("rmy" in ISO 639-3 beta) being the most wellknown with an
> important written litterature, using the Latin script in Europe or the
> Devanagari script in India, and probably other scripts like Arabic and
> Cyrillic, depending on locations where the language would have evolved as
> distinct variants.
>
> How would the CLDR handle language familes like this? Are there fallback
> mechanisms that allow "rmy" to fallback to "rom" resources?
>
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