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Navigation

Once you start on a particular locale, most windows have a navigation bar at the top. It looks like the following.

Locales   ┗ French

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Main View

Every main view contains a navigation bar that looks something like this:

Below the navigation bar, you'll see something like this:

Here is what all these symbols and backgrounds mean. Most of the buttons have a short explanation if you "hover" your mouse over them. When pushed, they go do the zoomed view.

Column	Example	Description		Comments
Status		approved	The proposed value will be approved (if no other changes are made).	Click on any of these to zoom in on details: warnings, examples, and demos (as available)
		inherited:	The proposed value comes from the parent locale, and is approved there.
		not approved	The proposed value doesn't have enough votes to be approved
		warning:	There is at least one mechanically generated warning message for this value.
		error:	There is a mechanically detected error with the value.
Code	bho	code	This is an internal, constant code used to access the translation, both in English and in other languages. It is sometimes a longer value, like available date formats:[@id="Hm"]
Proposed	bichlamar	winner	If nothing else is done, this will be confirmed as the value in the release.	If the bichlamar item is the right one, you can continue. Otherwise, select the right value () or add a new value.
	blin	loser	If nothing else is done, this item will not be chosen.
	bho	inherited	The value comes from the "parent" locale. For example, in "en_GB", this indicates a value from 'en'. If the value is wrong for the parent, you should fix it there.
	bugg	alias	The value comes from another part of this locale, or from another locale. For example, the Japanese calendar's months may be the same as the Gregorian (Western) calendar's.
	grc	untranslated	Picking this value is the equivalent of removing a translation.
Ex.	1,234.56	example	Provides examples of patterns in usage. If text is substituted in a pattern, it is shown in gray. For example, there is a pattern used in timezones "{0} Time". In the example, a sample value is used to show what it would look like, as "Japan Time"
Change		add proposed value	Allows you to add new proposed value. Do this if none of the other values are correct. Clicking in the box will automatically select the button, indicating that you are adding this item.
n/o		no opinion / no addition	If you have no opinion -- or you want to not add an item after clicking in the Change box , select n/o.

Main View with Examples

Many of the strings are just simple names, such as the names of the languages above. Those are called "Code Lists" in the tool. Others are a bit more complicated, and are either patterns or parts of patterns. For example, look at the following.

In this case the value that you can choose is a pattern that indicates how a number is to be formatted for your language. This is very much like the "custom formatting" used in spreadsheets. In such cases, the tool will show (where possible) a short example of what the format will result in.

To see what the patterns or their components mean, click on the Status icon:  ,  , , ,

Zoom View with Examples

Status icons act as "zoom buttons". Once you hit any of the zoom button, you get a separate window with a more detailed view of just that item. With some browsers, this window isn't brought up to the front, so it helps to make your main view smaller than the full screen, and put this window to the side. The contents of the zoom view will look like the following.

If you created a value for an item but have since decided that the value is incorrect, and if nobody else has voted for the value yet, then in zoom view a "Delete item" checkbox will appear, offering you the opportunity to delete the value.

Note that only technical committe members will see the Create Alternate button (don't use this unless you know what you are doing).

Whenever an item is controversial, you should add a reference for it. Use the Add/Lookup References link, to see the available references, add a new one if you need to. Then pick the reference number from the list.

The links at the bottom provide help.

Demo View

Some Zoom views have demo links, where you can try out different values to see the formatting. For example, CheckNumbers results in:

Description

Dates, times, and numbers are formatted using patterns, like "mm-dd", "#,##0.##" and so on. Different characters stand for different parts of the number. You need to use '.' for the decimal point and ',' for the thousands (grouping) separator, even if they are not used in your language. For special characters used in data and number format patterns, see Appendix F: Date Format Patterns and Appendix G: Number Format Patters of UTS #35: Unicode Locale Data Markup Langauge.

Supplemental Data

The supplemental link in the navigation bar takes you to a different kind of window, for information about languages and countries. This data was collected based on information from the World Bank and other sources (see the top of the pages for more information). As a native speaker you may have better access to sources of the data than are available in English, so we'd appreciate your reviewing this information.

 If there is a major country or territory missing for the language, click add new to report a bug. For each of the countries that you are familiar with where your language is in major use, click on the country code (eg AT). You'll see a view like this.

If any of the details are wrong in the table, you can report a bug with the bug link. You can also request adding another language with the add new link. Some notes:

• The language population should be the proportion of people who are fluent (functionally) in the language, as a first or second language. Thus the figures may add to more than 100%.
• The Days in week (min) is the minimum number of days in a week for it to count as the first week of the year (or month). For example, in some countries there need to be 4 days in the first week (starting from the First day of week) for it to count as week number 1; in others, what counts as the first week may only need one day. For example, January 1, 1998 was a Thursday. If the first day of the week is MONDAY and the minimum days in a week is 4, then week 1 of 1998 starts on December 29, 1997, and ends on January 4, 1998. However, if the first day of the week is SUNDAY, then week 1 of 1998 starts on January 4, 1998, and ends on January 10, 1998. The first three days of 1998 are then part of week 53 of 1997.