1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> 2<html> 3<head> 4 5 6 7 8 9 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 10 11 12 13 14 15 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> 16 17 18 19 20 21 <meta name="VI60_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript"> 22 23 24 25 26 27 <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0"> 28 29 30 31 32 33 <meta name="keywords" content="Page Content"> 34 35 36 37 38 39 <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 <title>Press Release CLDR</title> 49 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.unicode.org/webscripts/standard_styles.css"> 50</head> 51 52 53<body text="#330000"> 54 55 56 57 58<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> 59 60 61 62 <tbody> 63 64 65 <tr> 66 67 68 69 <td colspan="2"> 70 71 72 73 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> 74 75 76 77 <tbody> 78 79 80 <tr> 81 82 83 84 <td class="icon"><a href="http://www.unicode.org/"> 85 <img src="http://www.unicode.org/webscripts/logo60s2.gif" alt="[Unicode]" align="middle" border="0" height="33" width="34"></a> <a class="bar" href="http://www.unicode.org/press/"><font size="3">Press</font></a></td> 86 87 88 89 </tr> 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 </tbody> 97 98 99 </table> 100 101 102 103 </td> 104 105 106 107 </tr> 108 109 110 111 <tr> 112 113 114 115 <td colspan="2" class="gray"> </td> 116 117 118 119 </tr> 120 121 122 123 <!-- BEGIN CONTENTS --> 124 <tr> 125 126 127 128 <td> 129 130 131 132 <table> 133 134 135 136 <tbody> 137 138 139 <tr> 140 141 142 143 <td class="contents" valign="top"> 144 145 146 147 <blockquote> 148 149 150 151 <div> 152 153 154 155 <h1>Unicode Releases<br> 156 157 158 159 Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.6</h1> 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 167 Mountain View, CA, July 2, 168 2008</span> - The Unicode® Consortium announced today the release of 169 the new version of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Unicode 170 Common Locale Data Repository</span><b> (Unicode CLDR 1.6)</b>, providing key 171 building blocks for software to support the world's languages. Unicode CLDR 172 is by far the largest and most extensive standard repository of 173 locale data. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies for 174 their software internationalization and localization: adapting 175 software to the conventions of different languages for such common 176 software tasks as formatting of dates, times, time zones, numbers, 177 and currency values; sorting text; choosing languages or countries 178 by name; transliterating different alphabets; and many others.</p> 179 180 181 182 183 <p>CLDR 1.6 contains data for 137 languages and 140 184territories: 374 locales in all. 185Version 1.6 of the repository contains 186over 32% more locale data than the previous release, with nearly 18724,000 new or modified data items entered by over 220 different 188contributors. <span class="q"></span></p> 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 <p><span class="q"></span>Major contributors to CLDR 1.6 196include Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM, and Sun, plus official 197representatives from a number of countries. Many other organizations 198and volunteers around the globe, including Gnome, Kotoistus, LISA, 199OpenOffice, and Utilika, have also made important 200contributions. The data for CLDR is gathered through the CLDR<i> survey tool</i>, which allows organizations and volunteers 201to contribute, compare, and vet locale data. For web pages with different views of CLDR data, see <a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts.html">http://unicode.org/cldr/charts.html</a>.</p> 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 <p><span class="q">Unicode CLDR 1.6 is 210part of the Unicode locale data project, together with the <span style="font-weight: 700;">Unicode L</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ocale Data Markup Language</span> 211(LDML: <a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/">http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/</a>). LDML is an XML format used for general 212interchange of locale data, such as in Microsoft's .NET. Major new features 213of Unicode LDML 1.6 include:</span></p> 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 <ul> 221 222 223 <li><span class="q">Plural rules (such as the 4 forms for Russian).</span></li> 224 225 226 <li><span class="q">Plural forms of currencies and date/time durations ("1 hour" vs "2 hours")</span></li> 227 228 229 <li><span class="q">Interval formats for a concise representation of a range of two dates or times ("Jan 10-12, 2008").</span></li> 230 231 232 <li><span class="q">Telephone codes for different countries.</span></li> 233 234 235 <li><span class="q">Clarified fallback process for resource bundle lookup and resource item lookup.</span></li> 236 237 238 <li><span class="q">Explicit definition of Unicode locale and language identifiers.</span></li> 239 240 241 <li><span class="q">Many other clarifications and corrections.</span></li> 242 243 244 245 246 </ul> 247 248 249 250 251 <p><span class="q">For more information about the Unicode CLDR project (including 252 charts) 253 see 254 <a title="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/"> 255 http://unicode.org/cldr/</a>. </span> 256 <wbr>The latest features of CLDR will also be showcased at the 32st <b> 257 Internationalization and Unicode Conference</b> (IUC) on September 8-10, 2008 in San 258 Jose, CA 259 <font face="Arial">—</font><wbr> see <a href="http://www.unicodeconference.org/"> 260 http://unicodeconference.org/</a>.</p> 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">About the Unicode Consortium</span></p> 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 <p>The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization 275founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and 276related globalization standards. The membership of the consortium 277represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the 278computer and information processing industry: Adobe Systems, Apple, 279Basis Technology, Denic eG, Google, Government of India, Government of 280Pakistan, Government of Tamil Nadu, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, 281Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, UC Berkeley, 282Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual 283members.</p> 284 285 286 </div> 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 <p>For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium (<a href="http://www.unicode.org/">http://unicode.org/</a>). 294 </p> 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 <hr width="50%"> 302 303 304 305 <div align="center"> 306 307 308 309 <center> 310 311 312 313 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 314 315 316 317 <tbody> 318 319 320 <tr> 321 322 323 324 <td><a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html"> 325 <img src="http://www.unicode.org/img/hb_notice.gif" alt="Access to Copyright and terms of use" border="0" height="50" width="216"></a></td> 326 327 328 329 </tr> 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 </tbody> 337 338 339 </table> 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 <script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.unicode.org/webscripts/lastModified.js"> 347 </script> 348 </center> 349 350 351 352 </div> 353 354 355 356 </blockquote> 357 358 359 360 </td> 361 362 363 364 </tr> 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 </tbody> 372 373 374 </table> 375 376 377 378 </td> 379 380 381 382 </tr> 383 384 385 386 387 388 </tbody> 389</table> 390 391 392 393 394</body> 395</html> 396
