Spurious < in Kangri's exemplarCity for Africa/El_Aaiun

[Edward Welbourne]

Hi CLDR,

Looking at v46's common/main/xnr.xml, I see

<zone type="Africa/El_Aaiun">
<exemplarCity>अल आइयून&lt;</exemplarCity>
</zone>

which differs by one &lt; from kxv_Deva.xml and hi.xml which both have

<zone type="Africa/El_Aaiun">
<exemplarCity>अल आइयून</exemplarCity>
</zone>

I cannot help but suspect the stray &lt; is an error.
Not that I have any knowledge of Kangri, so check with whoever submitted that.
I have a branch on github that you're welcome to pull,
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/compare/main...ediosyncratic:cldr:xnr-El-Aaiun-fix-v46
but when I try to create a PR I am told (inter alia)

1. Make sure the ticket is filed at https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/projects/CLDR/

but visits to that site always get me the message: <Jira>

Something's gone wrong

Looks like you've been signed out. Try logging in again.

</Jira> with a "Log in" link that I can click to get exactly the same
message. Being allergic to infinite loops I'll not waste my time
fighting that.

I am also told:

3. You will be automatically asked to sign the contributors’ license
before the PR is accepted.

and wish to suggest to you that a trivial typo-fix cannot rise to the
level of needing a CLA. No jurisdiction could sanely allow that I
somehow gain copyright control over CLDR by submitting this and it would
be quicker and simpler - both for the Unicode Consortium and for me plus
the lawyers where I work - for someone who's already signed such a CLA
to duplicate the trivial fix that they can infer from the mail above
without looking at my PR to be "tainted" by having seen my trivial fix.

Eddy.

[Markus Scherer]

Hi Eddy,

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:33 AM 'Edward Welbourne' via CLDR - Users Public Mail List <cldr-...@unicode.org> wrote:

I cannot help but suspect the stray &lt; is an error.

It sure looks like a simple typo.

but when I try to create a PR I am told (inter alia)

1. Make sure the ticket is filed at https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/projects/CLDR/

I filed one on your behalf: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-18124

I also asked the CLDR-TC to consider a standing per-release issue for minor fixes like this.

I am also told:

3. You will be automatically asked to sign the contributors’ license
before the PR is accepted.

(Wait, what happened to item number 2? ;-)

and wish to suggest to you that a trivial typo-fix cannot rise to the
level of needing a CLA.

Yeah, but it is harder for an open source project to evaluate exceptions than to have a simple, consistent process.

And all of this stuff has been tightened up a lot in the last 25 years.

Accepting the CLA takes a few clicks and will apply to all Unicode projects. Of course, you do need to think about whether your contribution could be considered part of your day job, in which case you may need to check with your employer about open source policies. Given your email address, I assume you know who to talk to :-)

Hope this helps -- best regards,

markus