On Nov 28, 2007 12:29 AM, Nathan Yergler <nathan@yergler.net> wrote:
If you follow the wink, http://www.unicode.org/cldr/repository_access.html has the details to the files. Currently the latest is at http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/1.5.0/core.zip.
Zope at this point still uses LDML 1.0 whereas the latest version is LDML 1.5.
Upon casual inspection of the files it seems their basic structure is still the same, though more careful inspection is required.
I've been avoiding even less interesting work this afternoon, taking a look at this. I started by dumping the new files into the data directory and just running the tests. As expected, things blew up in a really spectacular manner.
After some wrangling I've discovered that in the newer versions of the CLDR dataset some of the information previously contained in the locale files (such as weekend start/end, etc), is now in located in a "supplemental" file. While this makes a certain amount of sense (it's tied to territories, not really languages), it does mean that the information needed for a Locale is no longer self-contained in a single XML file.
So unfortunately it's going to require some more work to fix up the loader; I'll probably create a branch to work on this some...
Has anyone looked at Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/)? It includes a python interface to CLDR, which if usable would let us off the hook of maintaining such an interface ourselves. -- Martijn Pieters