[icu-announce] ICU 72 Released

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Markus Scherer

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Oct 20, 2022, 4:54:39 PM10/20/22

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Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 72. It updates to Unicode 15, and to CLDR 42 locale data with various additions and corrections.

ICU 72 and CLDR 42 are major releases, including a new version of Unicode and major locale data improvements.

ICU 72 adds two technology preview implementations based on draft Unicode specifications:

Formatting of people’s names in multiple languages (CLDR background on why this feature is being added and what it does)
An enhanced version of message formatting

This release also updates to the time zone data version 2022e (2022-oct). Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.