[Checkins] SVN: zope.i18n/trunk/ Merge the nadako-sorting branch, updating CLDR to 1.1.

[Dan Korostelev]

2009/2/27 Stephan Richter <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>:
> On Friday 27 February 2009, Dan Korostelev wrote:
>> Well, it IS quite a lot of pain, as LDML specifications don't list
>> their changes verbosely enough and it's quite hard to maintain
>> backward-compatibility when CLDR structure changes with new LDML
>> versions. There's still many LDML versions to upgrade to.
>
> I have not been keeping up. What is LDML and what is CLDR?

CLDR is the Common Locale Data Repository, so it's the database we
use. LDML is Locale Data Markup Language, it's a specification for XML
files that CLDR is distributed in. zope.i18n.locales currently parses
these xml files.

>
>> Also, I it
>> looks crazy how zope.i18n.locales things works, especially when it
>> comes to inheritance. :)
>
> Feel free to improve it. :-)

Well, it's quite hard when it comes to backward-compatibility, but
I'll certainly think on some ways to improve.

>> I even have some thoughts about just
>> integrating Babel into zope.i18n, as it does CLDR much better.
>
> Can you give me a link?

Sure. http://babel.edgewall.org/

-- 
WBR, Dan Korostelev