From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 11:23:39 CST
The Unicode(R) Consortium has announced the release of the new version of
the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (Unicode CLDR 1.5.1), 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.
CLDR 1.5.1 is an update release, with no new translations. The main
changes are a significant revision to the data and process for computing
timezone names, and additional data for finding default script or country
given a language, or the converse. The structure has also been updated for
the latest version of BCP 47, and new currency codes. For more information,
see http://unicode.org/cldr/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Jan 10 2008 - 11:25:21 CST