Denis Barbier wrote:
Out of curiosity, why are people willing to contribute to the CLDR project, which has the worst bug tracking system and gives mailing lists access only to its members? I for one am not willing to pay $120/year in order to be able to follow its development.
I had no problem joining the CLDR mailing list even though I'm not not a member of Unicode. If I remember, you just send a "Subscribe CLDR" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mostly the list is used to discuss incoming bugs and changes.
If you want to participate in their meetings which are held electronically once or twice a week they they do want you represent a national body or something - Though I'm sure they would be happy you have a liaison member from amongst glibc maintainers responsible for locales.
CLDR bugs are at: http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/locale-bugs/ They are trying to improve the tracking. The CLDR CVS has been frozen as they have been moving the server.
Personally I've contributed locale info to CLDR because it is already being used by Apple, Sun, IBM, ICU etc and I would like to see support for the minority languages I'm working on as widespread as possible.
Having a central depository for locale information which everyone can use makes a lot of sense and CLDR seem willing to add new types of locale information and new fields where there is a need. They are also trying to
make it more flexible so that it accommodates the needs of different languages and cultures better.
- chris
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