Unicode CLDR 32 provides an update to the key building blocks for software supporting the world’s languages. This data is used by all major software systems for their software internationalization and localization, adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks.Some of the improvements in the release are:
- More complete data
- Major contributions of main locale data for Chakma (ccp), Sindhi (sd), Odia (or), Kabyle (kab), Pashto (ps), Turkmen (tk), Norwegian Nynorsk (nn), Assamese (as), and others.
- Rule-based number formats for Indian English, Akan, Hindi (oblique), Cherokee; revisions to some others.
- Import of draft subdivision names and language groups from wikidata.
- New data types
- Numeric exemplars. For example, in zh: [\- , . % ‰ + 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 〇 一 七 三 九 二 五 八 六 四]
- “Disjunctive” list style (eg “a, b, or c”)
- AvailableFormats items for day periods (skeleton “
Bhm”→ pattern “h:mm B” → “1:30 in the afternoon”)
- Major additions for Emoji
- Emoji name and keyword updates for Unicode 10 and Emoji 5.0 (minor updates for English, full data collection for other languages). Keywords now in sorted order.
- Adjustments to emoji collation
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