[Zope-dev] Re: Additional locales for zope.i18n.locales.data?

Nathan Yergler nathan at yergler.net
Wed Nov 28 17:55:36 EST 2007


On 11/28/07, Martijn Pieters <mj at zopatista.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 12:29 AM, Nathan Yergler <nathan at 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.

I've used Babel for some basic catalog manipulation, but didn't
realize it did CLDR, too.  I'll take a look at it.

>
> --
> Martijn Pieters
>


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