On 11/28/07, Martijn Pieters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 12:29 AM, Nathan Yergler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you follow the wink, > > > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/repository_access.html has the details to > > > the files. Currently the latest is at > > > http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/1.5.0/core.zip. > > > > > > Zope at this point still uses LDML 1.0 whereas the latest version is > > > LDML 1.5. > > > > > > Upon casual inspection of the files it seems their basic structure is > > > still the same, though more careful inspection is required. > > > > I've been avoiding even less interesting work this afternoon, taking a > > look at this. I started by dumping the new files into the data > > directory and just running the tests. As expected, things blew up in > > a really spectacular manner. > > > > After some wrangling I've discovered that in the newer versions of the > > CLDR dataset some of the information previously contained in the > > locale files (such as weekend start/end, etc), is now in located in a > > "supplemental" file. While this makes a certain amount of sense (it's > > tied to territories, not really languages), it does mean that the > > information needed for a Locale is no longer self-contained in a > > single XML file. > > > > So unfortunately it's going to require some more work to fix up the > > loader; I'll probably create a branch to work on this some... > > Has anyone looked at Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/)? It includes a > python interface to CLDR, which if usable would let us off the hook of > maintaining such an interface ourselves.
I've used Babel for some basic catalog manipulation, but didn't realize it did CLDR, too. I'll take a look at it. > > -- > Martijn Pieters > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
