Unicode CLDR 35 beta available for testing

The *beta* version of Unicode CLDR 35
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35> is available for
testing. The final release is expected on March 27.

Aside from documenting additional structure, there have been important
modifications LDML (scan for the yellow highlighted sections). See
Modifications
<http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/specs/ldml/tr35.html#Modifications>
for details. There is (limited) time for feedback on the changes to the
specification: please file feedback at
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/newticket.

Unicode CLDR 35 provides an update to the key building blocks for
software supporting the world's languages. CLDR data is used by all
major software systems
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR-> for their software
internationalization and localization, adapting software to the
conventions of different languages for such common software tasks.

CLDR 35 included a limited Survey Tool data collection phase
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/supplemental/locale_coverage.html>,
adding approximately 54 thousand new translated fields:

*Basic coverage*

New languages at *Basic* coverage: Cebuano (ceb), Hausa (ha), Igbo (ig),
Yoruba (yo)

*Modern coverage*

Languages Somali (so) and Javanese (jv) has additional coverage from
*Moderate* to *Modern*

*Emoji 12.0*

Names and annotations (search keywords) for 90+ new emoji
<http://blog.unicode.org/2019/02/unicode-emoji-12-final-for-2019.html>;

Also includes fixes for previous names & keywords

*Collation*

Collation updated to *Unicode 12.0*, including new emoji;

Japanese single-character (ligature) era names added to collation and
search collation

*Measurement units*

23 additional units
<http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/delta/supplemental-data.html#unit>

*Date formats*

Two additional flexible formats, and 20 new interval formats

*Japanese calendar*

Updated to Gannen (元年) number format for years

*Region Names*

Many names updated to local equivalents of “North Macedonia” (MK
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/by_type/locale_display_names.territories__europe_.html#216cb1286c47a733>)
and “Eswatini” (SZ
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/by_type/locale_display_names.territories__africa_.html#6e49aa3c9aa50dc9>)

A dot release, version 35.1 is expected in April, with further changes
for Japanese calendar.

For details, see Detailed Specification Changes
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Specification-Changes>,
Detailed Structure Changes
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Structure-Changes>,
Detailed Data Changes
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Data-Changes>,
Growth <http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Growth>.
Received on Mon Mar 18 2019 - 12:54:14 CDT