Showing posts with label ICU 73. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ICU 73. Show all posts
Thursday, June 15, 2023
ICU 73.2 & CLDR 43.1 released: GB18030 compliance updates & compatibility fixes
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ICU is the
premier library for
software internationalization, used by a
wide array of companies and organizations to support the world's
languages, implementing both the latest version of the Unicode Standard and
of the Unicode locale data (CLDR).
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CLDR provides key building blocks for
software to support the world's languages (dates, times, numbers,
sort-order, etc.). All major browsers and all modern mobile phones use CLDR
for language support. (See
Who uses CLDR?)
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CLDR extends the support for “short”
Chinese sort orders to cover some additional, required characters for Level
2. This is carried over into ICU collation.
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ICU has a modified character conversion
table, mapping some GB18030 characters to Unicode characters that were
encoded after GB18030-2005.
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There are optional variants of time formats
with AM/PM (only for English) using ASCII spaces in CLDR that can also be
used in ICU via custom data generation. This is intended to help certain
implementers transition to the improved patterns, which have used a narrow
no-break space between the time and AM/PM since
CLDR 42.
- For how to generate ICU data with this option, look for alt="ascii" on tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md
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The changes to the word segmentation
behavior of @ sign that were in CLDR 42 (ICU 72) have been reverted. These
caused problems for certain parsers that did not expect @ to join to
letters.
For details, please see:
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ICU 73.2 Release Note:
ICU 73.2
maintenance release
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CLDR 43.1 Release Note:
Version 43.1 Changes
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
ICU 73 Released
ICU LogoUnicode® ICU 73 has just been released. ICU is the
premier library for software
internationalization, used by a
wide array of companies and organizations to support the world's languages,
implementing both the latest version of the Unicode Standard and of the Unicode
locale data (CLDR). ICU 73 updates to
CLDR 43 locale data with various additions and corrections.
ICU 73 improves Japanese and Korean short-text line breaking, reduces C++ memory use in date formatting, and promotes the Java person name formatter from tech preview to draft.
ICU 73 and CLDR 43 are minor releases, mostly focused on bug fixes and small enhancements. (The fall CLDR/ICU releases will update to Unicode 15.1 which is planned for September.)
ICU 73 updates to the time zone data version 2023c (March 2023). Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/73.
Support Unicode
To support Unicode’s mission to ensure everyone can communicate in their languages across all devices, please consider adopting a character, making a gift of stock, or making a donation. As Unicode, Inc. is a US-based open source, open standards, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, your contribution may be eligible for a tax deduction. Please consult with a tax advisor for details.
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ICU 73 improves Japanese and Korean short-text line breaking, reduces C++ memory use in date formatting, and promotes the Java person name formatter from tech preview to draft.
ICU 73 and CLDR 43 are minor releases, mostly focused on bug fixes and small enhancements. (The fall CLDR/ICU releases will update to Unicode 15.1 which is planned for September.)
ICU 73 updates to the time zone data version 2023c (March 2023). Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.
For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/73.
Support Unicode
To support Unicode’s mission to ensure everyone can communicate in their languages across all devices, please consider adopting a character, making a gift of stock, or making a donation. As Unicode, Inc. is a US-based open source, open standards, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, your contribution may be eligible for a tax deduction. Please consult with a tax advisor for details.
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