On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Shawn Steele <[email protected]>wrote:
> I’m uncomfortable using the CLDR names, although perhaps they could be
> aliases, because other standards use the tzdb names and we have to be able
> to look up the tzdb names. It might be nice to get more stability for the
> tzdb names, like aliases or something.****
>
>
I'm simply not explaining myself correctly. *The CLDR IDs (long IDs) *ARE*
tzdb IDs.* Let me give you a specific case.
The TZDB has the equivalence class {Asia/Calcutta Asia/Kolkata}. They used
to have the former as the canonical name (in Zone), but then changed it to
the latter. Here is the current TZDB data:
zone.tab
IN +2232+08822 Asia/Kolkata
asia
Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
...
backward
Link Asia/Kolkata Asia/Calcutta
Because of the Link, both are valid and equivalent.
CLDR, because we need stability, retains the *former* TZID as the canonical
name. That is the meaning of the first alias in
http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/tags/release-22-1/common/bcp47/timezone.xml such
as in:
<type name="inccu" alias="*Asia/Calcutta* Asia/Kolkata" description="Kolkata,
India"/>
The short name (name="...") is only used for BCP47 subtags (because of the
ASCII/8-char limit), *not* for communicating with TZDB implementations. Nor
is it used in CLDR for the canonical ID.
Instead Asia/Calcutta is used as the canonical ID. Here are some of the
samples of the localizations.
<zone type="Asia/Calcutta">
<exemplarCity>ኮልካታ</exemplarCity>
</zone>
...
<zone type="Asia/Calcutta">
<exemplarCity>Kolkata</exemplarCity>
</zone>
...
<zone type="Asia/Calcutta">
<exemplarCity>コルカタ</exemplarCity>
</zone>
and so on. Note that these are all TZIDs.
The only long ID that CLDR adds is one to indicate an unknown/illegal TZID:
<zone type="Etc/Unknown">
<exemplarCity>地域不明</exemplarCity>
</zone>
Is the picture clearer now?
Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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