Locale Coverage Special Data

Missing Features

The following may be listed as Missing features in a Locale Coverage chart, such as Latest Locale Coverage.

Core

These are supplied or generated from data supplied in Core Data for New Locales.

1. default_content — required in supplied core data
2. country_data — required in supplied core data
3. time_cycle — required in supplied core data
4. likely_subtags — Based on the language population data, a likely subtag mapping is generated. For example, from “de” the likely subtags are “de_Latn_DE”.
5. orientation — generated from exemplar data

Moderate

The following are needed at the Moderate level. The first three should be present before submitting other moderate data

1. casing — for bicameral scripts, what is the normal casing for different kinds of fields (country names, language names, etc). Used internally in the Survey Tool.
2. plurals — the number of different plural forms, and the rules for deriving them. See Plural Rules and Plurals & Units
3. ordinals — the number of different plural forms, and the rules for deriving them. See Plural Rules and Plurals & Units
4. collation — rules for the sorting order for a language.

Modern

The following are needed at the Modern level. The grammar should be present before adding grammatical forms (eg for units)

1. grammar — what are the grammatical forms used in a language, in particular usages.

2. romanization — what are rules for romanizing the language’s script.