The Unicode CLDR v43 Beta is now available for integration
testing
CLDR provides key building blocks for software to
support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers, sort-order,
etc.). For example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones
use CLDR for language support. (See
Who uses
CLDR?)
Via the online Survey Tool, contributors supply data for their
languages — data that is widely used to support much of the world’s
software. This data is also a factor in determining which languages
are supported on mobile phones and computer operating systems.
It is important to review the
Migration section for changes that might require action by
implementations using CLDR directly or indirectly (eg, via ICU),
and the Specification
changes, since those are new since the Alpha.
We appreciate feedback from both ICU and non-ICU consumers of CLDR
data. (The
Beta
has already been integrated into the development version of ICU.)
Feedback can be filed at
CLDR
Tickets. Any tickets should be filed as soon as possible,
because the target release date is 2023
Apr 12, Wed.
CLDR 43 is a
limited-submission release, focusing on just a
few areas:
- Formatting Person Names
- Completing the data for formatting person names, allowing
it to advance out of “tech preview”. For more information on
the benefits of this feature, see
Background.
- Locales
- Adding substantially to the LikelySubtags data:
This is used to find the likely writing system and country
for a given language, used in normalizing locale identifiers
and inheritance. The data has been contributed by SIL
- Inheritance: Adding components to parentLocales, and
documenting the different inheritance for rgScope data,
which inherits primarily by region
- Other data updates
- Alternate names for Turkey / Türkiye
- Name for the new timezone Ciudad Juárez
- Structure
- Adding some structure and data needed for ICU4X &
JavaScript, for calendar eras and parentLocales.
- Collation & Searching
- Treat various quote marks as equivalent at a Primary
strength, also including Geresh and Gershayim.
To find out more about these and other changes, see the draft
CLDR v43
release page, which has information on accessing the date,
reviewing charts of the changes, and — importantly —
Migration issues.
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