Friday, October 25, 2024
Unicode CLDR 46 available
Postal Horn emojiUnicode CLDR 46
is now available and has been integrated into version 76 of ICU.
The most significant data changes in this release were:
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?))
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- Updated to Unicode 16.0 (including major changes to collation)
- Substantial additions and modifications of Emoji search keyword data
- ‘Upleveling’ the locale coverage (see below)
- Updates to Message Format in tech preview
- Updates to conformance
- New tech preview section on semantic skeletons
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.
In version 46, the following levels were reached:
New / Upleveled Locales
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New Level
Locales
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Modern
Nigerian Pidgin, Tigrinya
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Moderate
Akan, Baluchi (Latin), Kangri, Tajik, Tatar, Wolof
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Basic
Ewe, Ga, Kinyarwanda, Konkani (Latin), Northern Sotho, Oromo, Sichuan Yi, Southern Sotho, Tswana
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Basic*
Chuvash, Anii
We are currently planning for CLDR 47 to be a closed release with
no data submission period. The focus will be on improving the Survey Tool
used for data submission, making necessary infrastructure changes, and
some high priority data quality fixes.
For more information
See the CLDR 46 release page
, which has information on accessing the data, reviewing charts of the changes,
and — importantly — Migration issues.
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