From: announcements@unicode.org
Date: Fri May 08 2009 - 18:33:19 CDT
Mountain View, CA, May 8, 2009 - The Unicode® Consortium announced
today the release of the new version of the Unicode Common Locale Data
Repository* (Unicode CLDR 1.7)*, providing key building blocks for
software to support the world's languages. Unicode 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; transliterating
different alphabets; and many others.
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CLDR 1.7 contains data for 146 languages and 159 territories: 468
locales in all. Version 1.7 of the repository contains over 21% more
locale data than the previous release, with over 40,000 new or modified
data items from over 140 different contributors. Major contributors to
CLDR 1.7 include Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, and Sun, plus official
representatives from a number of countries. Many other organizations and
volunteers around the globe, including Gnome, Kotoistus, LISA,
OpenOffice, and Utilika, have also made important contributions. The
data for CLDR is gathered through the CLDR Survey Tool
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/survey-tool>, which allows organizations
and volunteers to contribute, compare, and vet locale data. In the
development of this release, the process of gathering data was sped up,
and the voting process was simplified.
The new features of Unicode CLDR 1.7 include:
* New and improved data, including Indic data.
* Enhanced number system support, including many non-decimal formats
as well as spelled-out forms ("twenty-three")
* Postal code format validity
* New IETF BCP 47 (RFC 4646) support
* Calendar preference data
* Improved language population data, and language-script mapping data
* Local DTD access
* Improved currency symbols
* Clarified specification of timezone parsing
Unicode CLDR 1.7 is part of the Unicode locale data project, together
with the Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML:
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/). LDML is an XML format used for
general interchange of locale data, such as in Microsoft's .NET. For web
pages with different views of CLDR data, see
http://unicode.org/cldr/charts.html.
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For more information about the Unicode CLDR project (including charts)
see http://cldr.unicode.org. The latest features of CLDR will also be
showcased at the 33rd * Internationalization and Unicode Conference*
(IUC) on October 14-16, 2009 in San Jose, CA — see
http://unicodeconference.org/ <http://www.unicodeconference.org/>.
About the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum
of corporations and organizations in the computer and information
processing industry: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG, Google, Government
of India, Government of Tamil Nadu, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging,
NetApp, Oracle, SAP, Society for Natural Language Technology Research,
Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at Berkeley,
Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual members.
For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
(http://unicode.org/ <http://www.unicode.org/>).
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