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Introduction

The Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages. CLDR is by far the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies for their software internationalization and localization: adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks as formatting of dates, times, time zones, numbers, and currency values; sorting text; choosing languages or countries by name; and many others.

CLDR uses the XML format provided by UTS #35: Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). LDML is a format used not only for CLDR, but also for general interchange of locale data, such as in Microsoft's .NET.

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments for special contributions to successive versions of CLDR and LDML are in the Acknowledgments section of UTS #35: Locale Data Markup Language (LDML).

Many other people have made significant contributions to CLDR and LDML, including the following:

Ayka Agayeva,
Serpil Zengin Akkaya,
Mati Allouche (מתתיהו אלוש),
Tarek Abou Aly (طارق أبو على),
Abdullah Hassaan Al-Anssary (عبدالله حسان الأنصاري),
A S Alam (ਅਮਨਪਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਆਲਮ),
Firoj Alam (ফিরোজ আলম),
Patrick Andries,
Neda Armanfar (ندا آرمانفر),
Steingrímur Árnason,
Dr. Adebisi Aromolaran,
Pantelis Assimakopoulos,
Omi Azad (অমি আজাদ),

Dwayne Bailey,
James Ballentine,
Alberto Barbati,
Shu Bei (舒蓓),
Philips Benjamin,
Sverrir Á. Berg,
Thrine Bjerknes,
Ernest v.d. Boogaard,
Saniye Boran,
Tim Brandall,
Alexander Buloichik (Аляксандар Булойчык),

Alejandra Canoura Pérez,
Avery Chan,
Ramon Casha,
Janny Chen (陈敏敏),
Alexis Cheng (鄭宗堯),
Séamus Ó Ciardhuáin,
Sumesh Chandran V.R (സുമേഷ് ചന്ദ്രന്‍.വി.ആര്‍),
Suresh Chandrasekharan (സുരേഷ് ചന്ദ്രശേഖരന്),
Helena Shih Chapman (施尙吟),
Irina Chausova,
Catherine Christaki (Κατερίνα Χρηστάκη),
Lee Collins,

Angelo Dalli,
Dan Dascalescu,
Mark Davis,
Natalie Davitashvili (ნატალია დავითაშვილი),
Simon Dean,
Andrea Decorte,
Anthony Deign (അന്തോണി ഡെയ്‌ന്‍),
Jeno Demeczky,
Puri Rodríguez Díaz,
Focko Dijksterhuis,
Ivailo Djilianov (Ивайло Джилянов),
Sivaraj Doddannan,
Đoàn Anh Đức,
Thomas Dujardin,

Peter Edberg,
John Emmons,
Eva Albertsdotter Enblom,
Jean-Jacques Enser,
Behdad Esfahbod (بهداد اسفهبد),
Michael Everson,
Doug Ewell,

Ahmad Farrag (أحمد فرّاج),
Mitra Fathollahpour (میترا فتح اله پور),
Doug Felt,
Elisabete Ferreira,
Márcio Ferreira,
Elsebeth Flarup,
Christopher Fynn (ཀརྨ་སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་འཛིན།),

William Gan (甘玮亚),
Tom Garland,
Mark Garrett,
Yun Fang Ge (葛云芳),
Deborah Goldsmith,
Anastasia Golikova (Анастасия Голикова),
Cristina Gonçalves
Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic (Јелена Пјешивац-Грбовић),
Flora Gu,
Hélène Guillerme,

S. M. Murtoza Habib (এস. এম. মুর্তজা হাবিব),
Mine Halıcı,
Riad Khaled Hallab (رياض خالد حلاب),
Chris Hansten,
Yannis Haralambous (Γιάννης Χαραλάμπους),
Andy Heninger,
Jarkko Hietaniemi,
Hideki Hiura,
Håvard Hjulstad,
Claire Ho (賀靜蘭),
Khaled Hosny (خالد حسني),
Susan Maria Howard,
Dominic Hung (洪淦輝),
Dr. Sarmad Hussain [CRULP (مرکز تحقیقات اردو)],

Laurențiu Iancu,
Rossi Ignatova (Роси Игнатова),

Cibu C. J. (സിബു സി.ജെ.),
Denis Jacquerye,
Jaganadh.G (ജഗന്നാഥ്.ജി),
Jama Musse Jama,
Waris Abdukerim Janbaz (ۋارىس ئابدۇكېرىم جانباز),
Witold Jarnicki,
Ivana Jelisavcic (Ивана Јелисавчић),
Miguel A. Jimenez,
Dewi Bryn Jones,
Paulo José,
Ole Kristian Julseth,

Ashraf-ul-Kabir (اشرف الکبير),
Alexander Kachur (Александр Качур),
Yasuyuki Kagawa (香川 康之),
Kent Karlsson,
Han Keuper,
Walter Keutgen,
Ghasem Kiani (قاسم کیانی مقدم),
Manfred Kiefer,
Rob Kiely,
Akio Kido,
Yuri Kirghisov,
Artur Klauser,
Erkki Kolehmainen,
Troy Korjuslommi,
Saurabh Kudesia (सौरभ कुदेशिया),
Dr. Rajesh Kumar (डॉ. राजेश कुमार),
Nicha Kumchokpattaraporn (ณิชชา กำโชคภัทรพร),

Susanna Laaksonen,
Rici Lake,
Antoine Leca,
Calvin Lee (李灝),
Lynn Lin (林蓓蓓),
Peter Linsley,
Alan Liu,
Marc Liyanage,
Audun Lona,
Steven R. Loomis,
Maria Luna,
David Luo (罗凌),

Yajie Ma (马亚杰),
Eric Mader,
Ihar Mahaniok (Ігар Маханёк),
Sasha Maric (Саша Марић),
Soe Min Mark,
Zsolt Mattburger
Boris Matveev (Борис Матвеев),
Rick McGowan,
Dary Mihova (Дари Михова),
Sonia Mokrani,
Dmitry Molodyk,
Radosław Moszczyński,
Eric Muller,

Myron Nechypor,
Raj Neettiyath (രാജ് നീട്ടിയത്ത്),
Simone Nicolo,
Mihai Niță,
Kentaroh Noji (野地 健太郎),
Peter Nugent,

Sandra O'Donnell,
Jelena Oertel,
Iroro Orife,
Fayeq Oweis (فائق عويس ),

Irina Parshina,
Alberto Escudero-Pascual,
Charles Pau (鲍景超),
Søren Thing Pedersen,
Åke Persson,
Valeriy Perunov,
Eddy Petrișor,
Radi Pipev (Ради Пипев),
Radek Podolski,
Roozbeh Pournader (روزبه پورنادر),
Behdad Pournader (بهداد پورنادر),
Viswa Prabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ),
Shankar Prasad M V,
Alexey Proskuryakov (Алексей Проскуряков),
Delyth Prys,
Gruff Prys,
Atso Puronen,

Rajesh Ranjan (राजेश रंजन),
Samphan Raruenrom (สัมพันธ์ ระรื่ืนรมย์),
Eike Rathke,
Vytautas Rekus,
George Rhoten,
Charles Riley,
Erdal Ronahi,
Jonathan Rosenne (יונתן רוזן),
Klaas Ruppel,

Roey Saban (רועי סבן),
Reiko Saito (斎藤 玲子),
Sara Santa Clara,
Saravanan (ശരവണന്),
Markus Scherer,
Dale Schultz,
Tatsuo Sekine(関根 達夫),
Nicholas Shanks,
Siddaarth Shanmugam (சித்தார்த் சண்முகம்),
Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜),
Vitaliy Shipitsyn (Виталий Шипицын),
Vasyl Shumskyi,
Nattapong Sirilappanich (ณัฐพงษ์ ศิริลาภพานิช),
Mirela Škarica,
Theresa Hieatt-Smith,
Livia Soardi,
Javier Sola,
Baldev Soor,
Miguel Sousa,
Suwit Srivilairith (สุวิทย์ ศรีวิไลฤทธิ์),
Fredrik Stenshamn,
Keith Stribley,
André Stryger,
William J. Sullivan,
Jolanta Szczerba,

Anna Taranova (Анна Таранова),
Yury Tarasievich (Юры Тарасевіч),
Mike Tardif,
Jacobo Tarrío Barreiro,
Maiko Nagae Tasaki (田崎 麻衣子),
Neel Kamal Thakur (नील कमल ठाकुर),
Oscar D.P. Triscon,
Dacijus Turauskas,
Teppo Turtiainen,
Michael Twomey,

Yoshito Umaoka (馬岡 由人),

Dick Veerhar,
Kik Velt,
Philippe Verdy,
Raghuram Viswanadha (రఘురామ్ విశ్వనాథ),
Sajith VK,

Milind Wanjari,
Vladimir Weinstein (Владимир Вајнштајн),
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven,
Dr. Frans Wijma,
Jørgen Christian Wind Nielsen,
Jarosław Włodarczyk,
Friedel Wolff,

Simos Xenitellis (Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης),
Klean Xhelilaj,
Serena Xiao (肖顺敏),

Daniel Yacob,
Jung Hyoun Yi (이정현),

Ruben Zakharov (Рубен Захаров),
Vladislav Zavyalov (Владислав Завьялов),
Weilin Zhang (张卫琳).

The first CLDR version under the sponsorship of the Unicode Consortium was version 1.1. The CLDR project was originally developed under the sponsorship of the Linux Application Development Environment (aka LADE) Workgroup of the Free Standards Group's OpenI18N (formerly known as Linux Internationalization Initiative or Li18nux) team. CLDR 1.0 was approved on 2004.01.16 by the OpenI18N steering committee. The founding members of the workgroup were IBM, Sun and OpenOffice.org.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to the CLDR 1.0 and LDML 1.0: Helena Shih Chapman, Mark Davis, Simon Dean, Deborah Goldsmith, Steven R Loomis, Kentaroh Noji, George Rhoten, Baldev Soor, Michael Twomey, Ram Viswanadha and Vladimir Weinstein. Special thanks to Akio Kido, Hideki Hiura, Tom Garland, and the OpenI18N organization for the sponsorship of this activity, and to the ICU team for hosting the CVS repository and collecting and managing the data for the project.


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