The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that the alpha version of
the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.2 is available for public
review. The contents include:
SPECIFICATION
* Updated Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) specification (UTS #35
draft), and updated DTD.
* Added explicit documentation of Date Format Patterns, Number Format
Patterns, Choice Patterns, Calendar Field
* Revised documentation of <characters> element, especially exemplar characters.
* Added alt attribute, references attribute, Inheritance and Validity
specification
* Incorporated new model of time zone localization
DATA
* Added weekend data for most locales
* Added yes / no POSIX data to most locales
* Added locale data for new locales Oriya, Malayalam, Assamese , Welsh,
Dzongkha, Bhutan, Khmer and Lao
(All of these need vetting: in particular, Oriya and Malayalam.)
* Added significant amounts of data (country, language, currency, and type
display names) to ar, bg, cs, el, he, hr, hu, is, mk, pl, ro, ru, sk, sl,
sr, tr, uk
* Incorporated other fixes / additions according for bugs / feature
requests filed, for French (inc. Canadian), Afrikaans, Swedish, and others.
For more information please look at the following:
* General information on CLDR
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
* Comparing CLDR data to platform data
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/comparison_charts.html
* Latest LDML
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/locale/docs/tr35.html
(Note that all LDML updates are to be backwards compatible.)
* For reporting bugs on the alpha
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/filing_bug_reports.html
