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159			Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.6</h1>
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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>
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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,&nbsp; with nearly
18724,000 new or modified data items entered by over 220 different
188contributors. <span class="q"></span></p>
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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,&nbsp;including Gnome, Kotoistus, LISA,
199OpenOffice, and Utilika, have also made important
200contributions.&nbsp;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>
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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
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251              <p><span class="q">For more information about the Unicode CLDR project (including
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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
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259        	<font face="Arial">—</font><wbr> see <a href="http://www.unicodeconference.org/">
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267              <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">About the Unicode Consortium</span></p>
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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
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