From: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Unicode® Consortium announced today that it will be hosting the Common > Locale Data Repository project, providing key building blocks for software > to support the world's languages. > > For more information and links to the project pages, please see: > > http://www.unicode.org/press/press_release-cldr.html
Is that a contribution of the Unicode Consortium to the OpenI18n.org project (former li18nux.org, maintained with most help from the FSF), or a decision to make the OpenI18n.org project be more open by pushing it to a more visible standard? In that case, I'm surprised to see that the preliminary pages on the Unicode.org's CLDR project defines it as a UTS (Standard) when it is a revizion of a previously published released 1.0 of LDML, plus the repository which is still hosted in the IBM's ICU project repository... Some confusion will occur for now if the CLDR pages reference a UTS (standard) rather than a UTR, which it should still be now, until there's a final approval as a standard (don't forget the Microsoft vote here, as it is camaigning a lot against Linux, which was the base platform from which the Openi18n.org project was born. Also the only certified platform for Openi18n.org is RedHat, a Linux platform... Will Microsoft endorse this addition into the domain of Unicode.org? I hope so, if this can help improve interoperability of platforms in this domain. I also hope that IBM will continue his woderful support for the CLDR collection of data for the repository, and that Microsoft and others will contribute too to make this important repository a key element for the convergence of platforms. May be this collaborative and richer standard will bring to the final approval of the unfinished ISO 3066 standard which developers and users want since so long... What will happen to the discussion lists on openi18n.org? Will it be easy to contribute locale data or to submit bug reports as it was in the past? I'm sure that the Unicode subcommitee that will take in charge the CLDR will need a new policy to accept new members using also their own technical solutions. At least I see a good point here if Openi18n.org merges with Unicode's goals: Unicode has now a concrete application of its standard (for example the CLDR will contain what has always been missing in Unicode: a clear definition of its usage with concreate languages and locales; so Unicode will not ignore the specific issues that come with some languages)
