The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is a project of the

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to provide locale data in

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format for use in computer applications. CLDR contains locale-specific information that an

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will typically provide to applications. CLDR is written in the Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). CLDR is maintained by a technical committee which includes employees from IBM, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and some government-based organizations. The committee is chaired by John Emmons, of IBM; Mark Davis, of Google, is vice-chair.

Details

Among the types of data that CLDR includes are the following: * Translations for language names * Translations for territory and country names * Translations for currency names, including singular/plural modifications * Translations for

weekday The weekdays and weekend are the complementary parts of the week, devoted to labour and rest, respectively. The legal weekdays (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most o ...

month A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words ''month'' and ''Moon'' are cognates. The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar mo ...

era An era is a span of time. Era or ERA may also refer to: * Era (geology), a subdivision of geologic time * Calendar era Education * Academy of European Law (German: '), an international law school * ERA School, in Melbourne, Australia * E ...

, period of day, in full and abbreviated forms * Translations for time zones and example cities (or similar) for time zones * Translations for calendar fields * Patterns for formatting/parsing dates or times of day * Exemplar sets of characters used for writing the language * Patterns for formatting/parsing numbers * Rules for language-adapted

collation Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office fi ...

* Rules for spelling out numbers as words * Rules for formatting numbers in traditional numeral systems (such as

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

and

Armenian numerals Armenian numerals form a historic numeral system created using the majuscules (uppercase letters) of the Armenian alphabet. There was no notation for zero in the old system, and the numeric values for individual letters were added together ...

) * Rules for

transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus '' trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → and → the digraph , Cyrillic → , Armenian → or L ...

between scripts, much of it based on

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The information is currently used in

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, and

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, among other applications and operating systems. CLDR overlaps somewhat with

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(

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locales). POSIX locale information can be derived from CLDR by using some of CLDR's conversion tools. The CLDR covers 400+ languages.

References

External links

Common Locale Data Repository
the informational webpage of the CLDR project
Locale Data Markup Language
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