Unicode CLDR 35 beta available for testing

Rick McGowan via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Mon Mar 18 12:53:45 CDT 2019


The *beta* version of Unicode CLDR 35 
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35> is available for 
testing. The final release is expected on March 27.

Aside from documenting additional structure, there have been important 
modifications LDML (scan for the yellow highlighted sections). See 
Modifications 
<http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/specs/ldml/tr35.html#Modifications> 
for details. There is (limited) time for feedback on the changes to the 
specification: please file feedback at 
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/newticket.

Unicode CLDR 35 provides an update to the key building blocks for 
software supporting the world's languages. CLDR data is used by all 
major software systems 
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR-> for their software 
internationalization and localization, adapting software to the 
conventions of different languages for such common software tasks.

CLDR 35 included a limited Survey Tool data collection phase 
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/supplemental/locale_coverage.html>, 
adding approximately 54 thousand new translated fields:

*Basic coverage*

	

New languages at *Basic* coverage: Cebuano (ceb), Hausa (ha), Igbo (ig), 
Yoruba (yo)

*Modern coverage*

	

Languages Somali (so) and Javanese (jv) has additional coverage from 
*Moderate* to *Modern*

*Emoji 12.0*

	

Names and annotations (search keywords) for 90+ new emoji 
<http://blog.unicode.org/2019/02/unicode-emoji-12-final-for-2019.html>;

Also includes fixes for previous names & keywords

*Collation*

	

Collation updated to *Unicode 12.0*, including new emoji;

Japanese single-character (ligature) era names added to collation and 
search collation

*Measurement units*

	

23 additional units 
<http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/delta/supplemental-data.html#unit>

*Date formats*

	

Two additional flexible formats, and 20 new interval formats

*Japanese calendar*

	

Updated to Gannen (元年) number format for years

*Region Names*

	

Many names updated to local equivalents of “North Macedonia” (MK 
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/by_type/locale_display_names.territories__europe_.html#216cb1286c47a733>) 
and “Eswatini” (SZ 
<https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/35/by_type/locale_display_names.territories__africa_.html#6e49aa3c9aa50dc9>)

A dot release, version 35.1 is expected in April, with further changes 
for Japanese calendar.

For details, see Detailed Specification Changes 
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Specification-Changes>, 
Detailed Structure Changes 
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Structure-Changes>, 
Detailed Data Changes 
<http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Detailed-Data-Changes>, 
Growth <http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-35?pli=1#TOC-Growth>.


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