CLDR v36 open for data submission

The Unicode CLDR Technical Committee is pleased to announce the opening
of the CLDR Survey Tool for general data submission. CLDR relies on
community contributions for its ongoing data refinement and to offer new
data to the CLDR user community. The collected data will be released as
Version 36 on October 15.

Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the
world's languages, and is used by much of the world’s software — for
example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR for
language support.

Version 36 is focusing on:

    * New measurement units and patterns
    * New names and search keywords for the draft candidate emoji for
      Emoji 13.0 (scheduled for release in 2020Q1)
    * Adding more locales for data contributions
    * Fleshing out Islamic calendar support
    * Improving translation quality in general

For more information on contributing to CLDR, see the CLDR Information
Hub <http://cldr.unicode.org/translation>. If you would like to
contribute missing data for your language, see Survey Tool Accounts
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/survey-tool/accounts>.

The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) provides key building blocks
for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most
extensive standard repository of locale data available. This data is
used by a wide spectrum of companies
<http://cldr.unicode.org/#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR-> for their software
internationalization and localization, adapting software to the
conventions of different languages for such common software tasks as:

    * Locale-specific patterns for formatting and parsing: dates, times,
      timezones, numbers and currency values, measurement units,…
    * Translations of names: languages, scripts, countries and regions,
      currencies, eras, months, weekdays, day periods, time zones,
      cities, and time units, emoji characters and sequences (and search
      keywords),…
    * Language & script information: characters used; plural cases;
      gender of lists; capitalization; rules for sorting & searching;
      writing direction; transliteration rules; rules for spelling out
      numbers; rules for segmenting text into graphemes, words, and
      sentences; keyboard layouts;…
    * Country information: language usage, currency information,
      calendar preference, week conventions,…
    * Validity: Definitions, aliases, and validity information for
      Unicode locales, languages, scripts, regions, and extensions,…

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/Over 130,000 characters are available for adoption
<http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html>, to help the
Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages/

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http://blog.unicode.org/2019/06/cldr-v36-open-for-data-submission.html

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