[icu-design] CLDR/ICU proposal: collation rules for import only

[Steven R. Loomis]

On 01/05/14 16:10, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:01:40 -0700
> Markus Scherer <markus.icu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In CLDR team discussion today we settled on a more obvious, less
>> "ugly" naming convention, using a two-part type that turns into two
>> language subtags.
>>
>> In CLDR data:
>>     <collation type="private-kana">
>>         <cr>...
>>
>>     <collation type="standard">
>>         <import source="ja" type="private-kana">
>>         <cr>...
>>
>> which in ICU would turn into
>>     [import ja-u-co-private-kana]
> I've been struggling to follow this, but should the key word be
> 'partial' or 'component' rather than 'private'.  There's nothing private
> about the rules one intends to share.

But these aren't shared with 'real users'. You don't sit in front of a
CLDR-compliant machine and get "ja-u-co-private-kana" in your pop-up
list of collators.  It's an implementation detail of other collators.

-s

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