https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30287

--- Comment #22 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2011-09-19 05:36:01 UTC ---
>So this does not match the current 2.0.1 (2011-07-18) update of CLDR, and also
>not the major 2.0 release (2011-05-25).

Well I installed via apt-get, which I'm sure is a little dated. If you
installed via some other means, it'd probably be more up to date.


> Version 1.8 is dated 2010-03-17, and still does not match Unicode 6, the
> current version of LDML, the modified version of the DUCET for the CLDR "root"
> locale, newer contextual collation tailoring rules, and the newer reordering 
> of
[..]
> 
> Version tracking of PHP's "intl" extension and ICU is then needed (in addition
> to PHP version, if it creates a dependancy). You must be more specific than
> just speaking about "intl" being used in MediaWiki. On the opposite ICU 
> remains
> in stricter sync with versions of Unicode UTS#10 (UCA), LDML, and CLDR data.
> 
> It's also important to track which part of the CLDR has been integrated when
> compiling ICU for the PHP "intl" extension, and which specific tailoring data
> have been built into that ICU module (or as external datafiles).
> 
> And as far as I know, ICU still does not natively implement the EOR collation
> (as defined equivalently in ISO and CEN standards); it also has some
> experimental code for future proposed or pending updates to these collation
> standards (including a refined, contextual, definition of static "collation
> levels", in order to later deprecate some of the too many existing 
> "attributes"
> which often lack a stricter formal definition for interoperability).


Why? How does this affect us (beyond the obvious people using older version get
crappier collation support).

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