[A12n-forum] FW: Unicode Announces Start of Submission Period for Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.5

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI (I had forwarded this earlier but there was a server problem)...  

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Subject: Unicode Announces Start of Submission Period for Common Locale Data
Repository, Version 1.5

Unicode Announces Start of Submission Period for Common Locale Data
Repository, Version 1.5

Mountain View, CA, March 12, 2007 -- The UnicodeR Consortium today announced
the start of data submission for the next release of the Unicode Common
Locale Data Repository (CLDR), Version 1.5. The Unicode CLDR is the largest
and most extensive standard repository of locale data in the industry today;
it is completely based on Unicode and conformant to the latest version of
the Unicode Standard, Unicode 5.0.

The Unicode CLDR is widely used by companies such as Adobe, Apple, Google,
IBM, and Sun, and organizations such as openoffice.org; it provides key
building blocks for software to seamlessly support the world's languages.

During the data submission period, from March 12th to April 29th, 2007,
contributors from Unicode Consortium members, other organizations and the
public at large are invited to review the data for their languages and
locations, and propose new translations of terms or modifications, including
language translations entirely new to the repository. New structure has been
added to the repository to improve representation of time zones, ranges of
dates and the usage of languages.

The data can be viewed using the online tool found at
http://unicode.org/cldr/survey_tool.html. This tool has been substantially
enhanced for this release and a forum has been added to allow communication
between translators.

For more information about the Unicode CLDR project, see
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/.  For more information about the Unicode
Standard and the latest Version 5.0, see
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/.

About the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards. The

membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and
organizations in the computer and information processing industry: Adobe
Systems, Apple, Basis Technology, Denic e.G., Google, Government of India -
Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan - National
Language Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging,
Oracle, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California at
Berkeley, Yahoo, plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual
members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/.