Common Locale Data Repository

Common Locale Data Repository
Developed by	Unicode Consortium
Initial release	19 December 2003 (2003-12-19)^[1]
Latest release	CLDR 29 (16 March 2016 (2016-03-16)^[1])
Container for	XML^[2]
Website	cldr.unicode.org

The Common Locale Data Repository Project, often abbreviated as CLDR, is a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in the XML format for use in computer applications. CLDR contains locale specific information that an operating system will typically provide to applications. CLDR is written in LDML (Locale Data Markup Language). The information is currently used in International Components for Unicode, Apple's OS X, LibreOffice, MediaWiki, and IBM's AIX, among other applications and operating systems.

Among the types of data that CLDR includes are the following:

Translations for language names.
Translations for territory and country names.
Translations for currency names, including singular/plural modifications.
Translations for weekday, month, era, period of day, in full and abbreviated forms.
Translations for timezones and example cities (or similar) for timezones.
Translations for calendar fields.
Patterns for formatting/parsing dates or times of day.
Exemplar sets of characters used for writing the language.
Patterns for formatting/parsing numbers.
Rules for language-adapted collation.
Rules for formatting numbers in traditional numeral systems (like Roman numerals, Armenian numerals, …).
Rules for spelling out numbers as words.
Rules for transliteration between scripts. A lot of it is based on BGN/PCGN romanization.

It overlaps somewhat with ISO 15897 (POSIX locales). POSIX locale information can be derived from CLDR by using some of CLDR's conversion tools.

CLDR is maintained by the CLDR technical committee, which includes organizations from IBM, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and some government-based organizations. The committee is currently chaired by John Emmons (IBM), with Mark Davis (Google) as vice-chair.^[3]

References

1 2 CLDR Releases/Downloads
↑ Updating DTDs, CLDR makes special use of XML because of the way it is structured. In particular, the XML is designed so that you can read in a CLDR XML file and interpret it as an unordered list of <path,value> pairs, called a CLDRFile internally. These path/value pairs can be added to or deleted, and then the CLDRFile can be written back out to disk, resulting in a valid XML file. That is a very powerful mechanism, and also allows for the CLDR inheritance model.
↑ http://cldr.unicode.org/index/process#TOC-Officers

External links

Common Locale Data Repository, the informational webpage of the CLDR project

CLDR Tools

Windows CLDR Tool Open-source tool to import CLDR locales into Windows Vista.

Unicode

Code points

Characters

Special purpose	BOM Combining Grapheme Joiner Left-to-right mark / Right-to-left mark Soft hyphen Word joiner Zero-width joiner Zero-width non-joiner Zero-width space

Lists	Characters CJK Unified Ideographs Combining character Duplicate characters Numerals Scripts Spaces Symbols Halfwidth and fullwidth

Processing

Algorithms	Bi-directional text Collation ISO 14651 Equivalence

Comparison	BOCU-1 CESU-8 Punycode SCSU UTF-1 UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-9/UTF-18 UTF-16/UCS-2 UTF-32/UCS-4 UTF-EBCDIC

On pairs of
code points

Usage

Related standards

Related topics

Scripts and symbols in Unicode

Common and inherited scripts	Combining marks Diacritics Punctuation Space

Modern scripts	Arabic diacritics Armenian Balinese Bamum Batak Bengali Bopomofo Braille Buhid Burmese Canadian Aboriginal Chakma Cham Cherokee CJK Unified Ideographs (Han) Cyrillic Deseret Devanagari Ge'ez Georgian Greek Gujarati Gurmukhī Hangul Hanja Hanunó'o Hebrew diacritics Hiragana Javanese Kanji Kannada Katakana Kayah Li Khmer Khudawadi Lao Latin Lepcha Limbu Lisu (Fraser) Lontara Malayalam Mandaic Meetei Mayek Mende Kikakui Miao (Pollard) Mongolian Mro N'Ko New Tai Lue Ol Chiki Oriya Osmanya Pahawh Hmong Pau Cin Hau Rejang Samaritan Śāradā Saurashtra Shavian Sinhala Sorang Sompeng Sundanese Sylheti Nagari Syriac Tagalog (Baybayin) Tagbanwa Tai Le Tai Tham Tai Viet Takri Tamil Telugu Thaana Thai Tibetan Tifinagh Tirhuta Vai Varang Kshiti Yi

Ancient and historic scripts	Ahom Anatolian hieroglyphs Ancient North Arabian Avestan Bassa Vah Brāhmī Carian Caucasian Albanian Coptic Cuneiform Cypriot Egyptian hieroglyphs Elbasan Glagolitic Gothic Grantha Hatran Imperial Aramaic Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Parthian Kaithi Kharosthi Khojki Linear A Linear B Lycian Lydian Mahajani Manichaean Meroitic Modi Multani Nabataean Ogham Old Hungarian Old Italic Old Permic Old Persian cuneiform Old Turkic Palmyrene 'Phags-pa Phoenician Psalter Pahlavi Runic Siddham South Arabian Ugaritic

Notational scripts	Duployan SignWriting

Symbols	Cultural, political, and religious symbols Currency Mathematical operators and symbols Phonetic symbols (including IPA) Emoji

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