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

["Martin J. Dürst"]

If the rules are partial, why not call them partial, rather than private?

Regards,   Martin.

On 2014/05/03 03:10, Markus Scherer wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Richard Wordingham <
> richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Are these then meant to be sets of rules that will not be stable from
>> one issue of CLDR to the next?
>
>
> Unrelated.
>
> We simply want to import partial rules into multiple real tailorings, (a)
> to avoid duplication and simplify maintenance and (b) save a bit of space
> in the rule strings, for implementations that store them.
>
> For example,
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/collation/ja.xml has two
> tailorings with the same rules for Kana. We want to pull the Kana rules out
> into a "private" set of rules that is then imported into those two
> tailorings.
>
> markus
>
>
>
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