The Unicode CLDR 46 Beta is now available for specification review and integration testing. The release is planned for October 24rd, but any feedback on the specification needs to be submitted well in advance of that date. The beta specification is available at Draft LDML Modifications. The biggest changes in the specification are the updates to Message Format in tech preview, the updates to conformance, and the new tech preview section on semantic skeletons. See also the Migration section of the new release page.
CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers, sort-order, etc.) For example, all major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR for language support. (See Who uses CLDR?)
Via the Survey Tool, contributors supply data for their languages — data that is widely used to support much of the world’s software. This data is also a factor in determining which languages are supported on mobile phones and computer operating systems.
The beta has already been integrated into the development version of ICU 76. We would especially appreciate feedback from non-ICU consumers of CLDR data and on Migration issues.
Feedback can be filed at CLDR Tickets.
The most significant changes to the data in this release are:
Updates to Unicode 16.0 (including major changes to collation),
Substantial additions and modifications of Emoji search keyword data,
‘Upleveling’ the locale coverage (see below).
For the details, see the draft CLDR 46 release page, which has information on accessing the data, reviewing charts of the changes, and — importantly — will cover Migration issues.
New / Upleveled Locales
For more information
See the draft CLDR 46 release page, which has information on accessing the data, reviewing charts of the changes, and — importantly — Migration issues.
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