Forgive me my unqualified comment, but wouldn't Chinese as a "major" 
language ? A few more people speak Chinese than, for example, French (or 
German, for that matter). ;-)

Sebastian Werner schrieb:
> Hi Hugh!
>
> The only good way I could think of is to mirror the stuff somewhere 
> locally and make the download server configureable in the Makefile. Do 
> you think this would be helpful in your case?
>
> We don't like to put all data in our repository because of the size and 
> the work needed to keep in sync with unicode.org. We just added the 
> major languages like english and francais to svn.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>
>
> Hugh Gibson schrieb:
>   
>> I work with a colleague in China. With a recent change to our application 
>> and 0.6.6, the build process tried to download 
>> http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/main/en_GB.xml 
>>
>> However, unicode.org is not accessible to him - it must be on the blacklist 
>> of the "great wall of china" - the firewall which is around all Chinese 
>> internet users (see 
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
>>
>>
>> The workaround for us was to manually download en_GB.xml here in the UK, 
>> send it to my colleague and have him put it in 
>> fronted/framework/source/locale. Now the build process (actually impl.mk) 
>> doesn't have to download the file and the build proceeds normally.
>>
>> Obviously this is easy to work around but it involves hacking into the 
>> source tree. You might want to consider other ways around this. For example, 
>> including the chinese XML configuration files as standard so a Chinese user 
>> doesn't have this problem. Or even including all the configuration files as 
>> standard.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
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