From: Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. > > 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...
Given its pre-Unicode history, I'd say that it clearly fits within the realm of a UTS. As such, Microsoft or any other vendor is free to ignore or support it as much as they wish as its impact upon Unicode per se is none. For me, the interesting thing to see will be how it affects ECMAScript. For a long time, several of its functions have reserved, but not made use of a locale argument. If this standard takes off, ECMAScript may finally have something to use in its next version, whatever that ends up being. However, a bigger question emerges with the release of the draft version of UTS 35. What happened to TR 33 and TR 34? Indeed, what are they? Something must be at least tentatively planned for those numbers, but there isn't anything available publicly at least.
