Unit Preferences named year-person and month-person

Patrick CHEW via CLDR-Users cldr-users at unicode.org
Thu Jan 30 15:54:24 CST 2020


Easy example is Chinese:
年 “year” (calendrical, etc)
歲/岁 “year (of age)”

兩年 “two years” (duration)
兩歲/岁 “two years (old)”

cheers,
- Patrick

[Apologies for any typos – typed with my thumbs and subject to the most amusing auto-correct (or not), i.e. typed on my iPhone]

> On Jan 30, 2020, at 10:44, Mark Davis ☕️ via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:
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> That is for some languages that have different names for years/months when applied to people's age, and this provides for that. We might not have collected the data yet.
> 
> Mark
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>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:31 AM Kip Cole via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:
>> In the supplemental data for unit preferences there is a reference to the unit names `year-person` and `month-person`:
>> 
>>   <unitPreferences category="duration" usage="person-age”>
>>     <unitPreference regions="001">year-person month-person</unitPreference>
>>   </unitPreferences>
>> 
>> But I cannot find a reference in the locale files of such a unit. Only `year` and `month`. These names don’t appear in
>> `validity/unit.xml` either.  
>> 
>> A scan of TR35 doesn’t turn up an additional references (beyond unit preferences) although the pending PR for 
>> unit conversions does contain `year-person` and `year-month`.
>> 
>> Am I missing a subtle interpretation of these two unit names?  All others I can find in `unitPreferences.xml`
>> match the unit names in the locale files.
>> 
>> Thanks, —Kip
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