[Unicode Announcement] Unicode Releases Common Locale Data Repository, Version 1.7.2

Mountain View, CA, December, 10, 2009-The Unicode® Consortium

announced today the release of version 1.7.2 of the Unicode Common

Locale Data Repository (CLDR). Unicode CLDR 1.7.2 is an update release,

with no new translations. The main changes are modifications to Unicode

language and locale identifiers to correspond to the recent version of

BCP47.

*About Unicode CLDR*

Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the

world's languages. Unicode CLDR is by far the largest and most extensive

standard repository of locale data. This data is used by a wide spectrum

of companies for their software internationalization and localization:

adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such

common software tasks as formatting of dates, times, time zones,

numbers, and currency values; sorting text; choosing languages or

countries by name; transliterating different alphabets; and many others.

For more information about the Unicode CLDR project (including charts)

see http://www.unicode.org/).

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