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. The information is currently used in IBM's International Components for Unicode, Apple Computer's Mac OS X, and Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org, among other applications. In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ... In computing, locale is a set of parameters that defines the users language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... Application has the following meanings: In general, an application is using something general to some more conrete. ... IBM redirects here. ... International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization and software globalization. ... Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... OpenOffice. ...
It overlaps somewhat with ISO 15897 (POSIX locales). ISO 15897 is an ISO standard for the registration of new POSIX locales and POSIX charmaps. ...
In its 1.4 release, it includes data for transliteration, a lot of it based on BGN/PCGN romanization. Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. ... BGN/PCGN romanization refers to the systems for romanization (transliteration into the Latin alphabet) and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN). ...
CLDR is maintained by the CLDR technical committee, chaired by Mark Davis (Google) and Deborah Goldsmith (Apple).
External link
Common Locale Data Repository, the informational webpage of the CLDR project
The Data document is a zip file containing the contents of the release (the files are complete in themselves, and do not require files from earlier releases -- for the structure of the zip file, see Repository Organization).
common — CLDRdata corresponding to the release
CLDR 1.3 includes reference versions of POSIX-format locale source files that are generated using the default options for each supported locale.
Differences in the number of locales delivered, the data contained within the locales, and the values of the localedata are common.
Locating and retrieving localedata from the many organizations that define and maintain internationalization standards and specifications can be time consuming due to their decentralized nature.
A single repository visible and vetted by international and national standards bodies, platform vendors, and end users will increase the singular focus required to create a set of correct localedata that is widely accepted and adopted by the industry.
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