Information Hub for Linguists

What's new in this cycle

• If you are new to CLDR contribution, please read the prerequisites above first.

• If you have contributed to CLDR in the past, below is the information that's new or changed since the last release. 

New locales and locale upgrades

• The following locales are added at a Core level, aiming for Basic level by end of release:  Mi'kmaq (mic), [TBD]

• The follow locales have higher coverage targets: [TBD]

New Data Fields

• Emoji:

  • There are new 20 new emoji that need short names and search keywords, plus 2 new labels. 

  • The labels are for use in constructing emoji that face to the right or left.

• PersonNames: There are three new fields, and 3 new modifiers.

  • Please read the section "Version 44 Changes" at the top of the Person Names Guide before doing any work on the Person Name Formats page.

• Units:

  • The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) has added 4 new prefixes.

  • There are a few new units, mostly locale-specific, such as units of area used in Japan [NOTE: not all of these will be present at start of Submission]

Revisited Data Fields

We are using a new process in this release, to make sure that certain types of fields are reviewed. The fields have been reset to Provisional, and you'll see them marked as P in the Dashboard. The number of fields to revisit varies by locale: for example, German has around 50 revisited fields while Amharic has around 100.

• PersonNames: Some locales had patterns missing spaces, insufficient variation between requested lengths, and bad sample names 

  • Please read the section "Version 44 Changes" at the top of the Person Names Guide BEFORE doing any work on the Person Name Formats page.

  • Remember that Sample Person Names, like Minimal Pairs, are NOT translations. Do not simply transliterate or translate the English. For more information, see the Person Names Guide.

• Inconsistent Units: For example, for the same unit, Dutch had "dots" as the long display name and "pixels" as the short display name; German has "Tassen" as long display name and "Cups" as the short. When you do these, please scan the Units pages for other inconsistencies.

• Changes to English: These are cases of substantial changes, where just a warning is insufficient. Examples:

  • The name of the Islamic calendar is being changed to indicate the specific association with the Hijrah.

    1. See https://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/fr/Keys/3df52b1e4d65309a and the following 3 related calendar names.

  • The name of the British Indian Ocean Territories is being change to allow for two variants plus a default. This allows implementations to make a choice among them.

    1. For the 'biot' variant, use a name corresponding to "British Indian Ocean Territories"

    2. For the 'chagos' variant, use a name corresponding to "Chagos Archipelago" or "Chagos Islands"

    3. For the main variant, use whichever is the most commonly used form in your language.

Survey Tool Changes

• Announcements. There is a new announcement mechanism that lets the TC and managers communicate more effectively with you.

• Forum. Improvements have been make to the forum to make it easier to filter posts to only those which you have yet to respond to in CLDR-14380 

  • Needing action has been updated to only show open posts that you have not responded or have voted against and the forum poster has since responded to.

  • Open discussions has been split into three categories:

    • Open discussion - all open forum posts

    • Open requests by you - all requests you have made that are currently open

    • Open requests by others - all requests made by others that are currently open

• Info panel. Improvements include:

  • Bidi Examples. If you are working with a bi-directional languages, be aware of the Right-to-Left and Neutral context. The Survey Tool now shows examples with a strong RL context and neutral, and we have seen issues where vetters removed the ALM bidi marks or modified the patterns without considering the neutral context. There are additional examples for number formats and numeric date/time patterns showing the results in different contexts, with additional examples for currency formats showing currency symbols with different directionality. Please review existing data with the new tooling and fix any directionality issues.

  • Inheritance. The Survey Tool shows detail information about how values inherit from other places with a new following icon in the Info Panel. This is for development use, and visible to Managers and above.

• Alphabetic Information Page. Exemplars and parseLenients have a new format that should help prevent errors. You no longer have to worry about using \ in front of characters like [ or $, or about {...} around grouped characters. In the examples in the Info panel, you will also see the differences from the Winning item when you click on any Other item (non-Winning).

  • Please read Unicode Sets before doing any work on that page.