FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
Q. Should I preserve the case of English words, like names of languages?
A. Beginning with CLDR 22, the new guidance is that names of items such as languages, regions, calendar and collation types, as well as names of months and weekdays in calendar data, should be capitalized as appropriate for the middle of body text. For more information, see the Capitalization section in the Translation Guidelines.
Q. What about the warning about parentheses being discouraged in cases such as "(other)"
A. You need to remove "(other)" or the equivalent
from language names. In general, you should avoid using parentheses in
the names of languages, scripts, or regions if at all possible. There
is more information about this in the zoomed view.
Q. Why is the tool slow?
A. For CLDR 26, the performance of the Survey Tool has been greatly improved compared to previous versions. However, we are constantly striving to improve performance and our ability to accommodate a larger user base.
If you feel a task is taking an unusual amount of time, and it is a consistent problem, please please file a bug at newticket. In the ticket, describe exactly what operation is being attempted and approximately how long it is taking to receive a response.
Q. How are votes weighted and the "best" item
picked?
A. You basically want to get multiple organizations to agree on the
best value. For details on the voting process, see
Resolution
Procedure.
Q. In the key, it says that the
red box is a
fallback. What does that mean?
A. The Unicode CLDR data uses inheritance. That means that if you
are looking at English (United Kingdom) (a "sublocale") most of the data
is inherited from English (which contains data for the US), called the
"parent locale". Such data will show up as red. You only need to have different
data in the sublocale where there are important differences in usage from the
parent locale.
Data in a sublocale may be spuriously different; that is, the parent's
data may be perfectly acceptable in the sublocale, but somehow a difference has
crept in. In that case, you should vote for the parent's data to reduce the
gratuitous differences.
Q. But what I see is a funny symbol like
Zxxx?
A. If there is no other translation available, what you will see is
a "neutral" code, typically an ISO code. In cases where there is no such code
available, such as for labels like "Month", then you may see English -- which
needs to be translated.
Q. How do I delete an item?
A. You can only delete an item if you yourself have entered it, and
there are no other votes. Click on the "Abstain" button for that row.
To remove a spurious difference in a
sublocale, vote for the red
fallback item.
Q. What if I can't delete it?
A. It doesn't really matter much. What is really important is to
make sure the the right item is voted for; so try to get consensus as
described above. If all the alternatives are really wrong, and you really don't
know what the right item would be, vote for the
red fallback item.
Q. What if I want to just try out some changes, but don't
want to affect the data?
A. Everyone can add data to "Unknown or Invalid Language"
(und), so you can try out the Survey tool there without worry.
Q. What if I have questions?
A. You should click on the items you have questions about, and
read the information in the right-hand information panel.
In many cases, even seemingly straightforward translations like the language,
script, and territory names have issues.
If you have further questions, or problems with the Survey Tool, send a
message to
cldr-users@unicode.org.
| Known Bugs, Issues, Restrictions- Logging in with an incorrect password doesn't inform the user that the login failed.
- Some fields, such as number formats, are shown incorrectly in right-to-left languages.
- RTL is not properly supported in the forums.
- We are still working on the sublocale pulldown in the Information Panel.
- The Report layouts are still being refined.
- The description of bulk uploading (http://cldr.unicode.org/index/survey-tool/upload) has not yet been updated for the new UI.
- The description of managing users (http://cldr.unicode.org/index/survey-tool/managing-users) has not yet been updated for the new UI.
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