question about identifying CLDR coverage % for Amharic

[Philippe Verdy]

Normally the English terms included should have a "provisional" status if
it was not vetted and approved. This is probably a bug in the data, or in
the way the XML files were derived from the survey.

2017-02-23 22:58 GMT+01:00 Tom Bishop, Wenlin Institute <tangmu at wenlin.com>:

> In this part of am.xml the content all looks Amharic:
>
> <type key="collation" type="phonebook">የስልክ ደብተር ድርድር ቅደም ተከተል</type>
> <type key="collation" type="phonetic">የፎነቲክ ድርደራ ቅደም ተከተል</type>
> <type key="collation" type="pinyin">ፒንይን የድርድር ቅደም ተከተል</type>
>
> In this part English and Amharic content are mixed:
>
> <characterLabel type="modifier">Modifier</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="musical_symbols">የሙዚቃ ምልክቶች</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="nature">ተፈጥሮ</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="nonspacing">Nonspacing</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="numbers">ቁጥሮች</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="objects">Objects</characterLabel>
> <characterLabel type="other">ሌሎች</characterLabel>
>
> Is there an established system to derive a meaningful "percentage of CLDR
> coverage for Amharic" from the data? Just from these (not really random)
> examples one might estimate 70%.
>
> Tom
>
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Chris Leonard <cjl at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
> Download the latest version of CLDR
>
> http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/30.0.3/
>
> specifically the core.zip file
>
> unzip the core.zip file, open the common folder, open the main folder,
> look for am.xml and am_ET.xml, find the attached files.
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
>
> cjl
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Isabelle Zaugg <
> iz6445a at student.american.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am working on my dissertation research and would like to identify the
>> percentage of CLDR coverage for Amharic and the other languages utilizing
>> the Ethiopic script.  I would like to get a percentage coverage for today,
>> as well as look at the increase over time.  So far here is what I have been
>> told:
>>
>>
>>    - ​The files in common/main are organized by locale, which uses a
>>    code, eg fr.xml for French.​ So you can look for the ones you want. To get
>>    the codes, you can look at http://www.unicode.org/cldr
>>    /charts/latest/supplemental/languages_and_scripts.html
>>    <http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/languages_and_scripts.html>.
>>    For example, Ethiopic is 'am'. For more information see the spec:
>>    http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/ <http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/>
>>    - To get changes over versions, you would download successive
>>    versions. Just the am.xml should be good enough; the regional variants
>>    typically inherit.
>>
>> Following these guidelines, I was still unable to identify the percentage
>> of CLDR coverage for Amharic.  Is there anyone who could help me with this
>> issue?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Isabelle
>>
>>
>> Isabelle Zaugg
>> Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow in ኢትዮጵያ
>> PhD Candidate in Communication
>> American University
>> Washington, D.C.
>>
>>
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