CLDR Survey Tool open for BETA testing.

[John Emmons]

The Unicode CLDR Technical Committee is pleased to announce the opening of
the CLDR Survey Tool for beta testing for Version 26 of CLDR, on May 1,
2014. CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's
languages.

The beta test will give CLDR contributors a chance to try out the new
features of the tool, without having to worry about the potential impacts
on CLDR itself.  If all seems to be going well during the beta test period,
we plan to open the survey tool for "official" data submission on or about
Thursday, May 8.

We plan to allow data submission until June 19, and data vetting until July
3. Version 26 is scheduled to be released in September 2014.

Highlights for the CLDR 26 release:

- Microsoft has agreed to join the CLDR project as a major contributing
partner.
- The survey tool user interface has undergone a major overhaul, thanks to
the hard work of our friends at Apple.  Hopefully, users will find the
interface more intuitive and easier to navigate.
- Google and IBM have also contributed significantly, especially in the
area of improving performance.  We have also upgraded our hardware, so we
are hoping for less down-time and fewer interruptions to your work.
- Many new types of fields and structure, including many additional types
of units.
- The first version to support the new characters in the Unicode encoding
standard, Version 7.0, due for release in July, 2014.


The CLDR survey tool can be reached by going to
http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey .

For known issues in the beta version, see Known Issues.

Anyone is welcome to try out the tool, although only those with accounts
will be able to make changes. To get an account, or if you have
forgotten...

If you have forgotten your login ID or password, please contact your CLDR
TC representative.

If you don't belong to a Unicode member organization, and are a native
speaker of a language other than American English, you can get an account.
Any bugs with the tool can be reported to the CLDR committee by opening a
new ticket at http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/newticket

Thanks in advance for your participation in the Unicode CLDR project!

Regards,

John C. Emmons
Globalization Architect & Unicode CLDR TC Chairman
IBM Software Group
Internet: emmo at us.ibm.com
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