The Unicode Consortium announces the alpha version of Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.2 open for public review. The contents include:

Specification

·          Updated Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) specification (UTS #35 draft), and updated DTD.

·          Added explicit documentation of Date Format Patterns, Number Format.

·          Patterns, Choice Patterns, Calendar Field.

·          Revised documentation of <characters> element, especially exemplar characters.

·          Added alt attribute, references attribute, Inheritance and Validity specification.

·          Incorporated new model of time zone localization.

Data

·          Added weekend data for most locales.

·          Added yes / no POSIX data to most locales.

·        Added locale data for new locales Oriya, Malayalam, Assamese , Welsh, Dzongkha, Bhutan, Khmer and Lao (All of these need vetting: in particular, Oriya and Malayalam).

·         Added significant amounts of data (country, language, currency, and typedisplay names) to ar, bg, cs, el, he, hr, hu, is, mk, pl, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, tr, uk.

·         Incorporated other fixes / additions according for bugs / feature requests filed, for French (inc. Canadian), Afrikaans, Swedish, and others.

For more information please look at the following:

General information on CLDR
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/

Comparing CLDR data to platform data
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/comparison_charts.html

Latest LDML
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/locale/docs/tr35.html
(Note that all LDML updates are to be backwards compatible.)

For reporting bugs on the alpha
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/filing_bug_reports.html