<i18n dev> [8] Review request for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data

[Naoto Sato]

Hi Steven,

I'll leave the implementation part discussion of the parser to 
Masayoshi, but one of the main reasons we used the internally existing 
parser was mainly the adaptation work that would be required to port 
CLDR's parser into the JDK. In this regard, I briefly had a chat with 
Yoshito a while ago, and he mentioned someone was working on a filter 
mechanism on CLDR tool that could emit JDK style format. That may be 
promising and worth considering in the future release of JDK.

Naoto

On 8/13/12 10:25 PM, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
> Naoto,
>   okay, thought I was done for the night, but just two more things..
>
> - again on the "talk to us" category.. Sun already wrote one LDML
> converter, and contributed to another. They're part of the CLDR toolset and
> work with OOo and Solaris data.
>
> - also, it appears that the new converter doesn't handle aliases at all, or
> parentLocales. You're guaranteed to get the wrong answer.
>
> - Some of the processing (such as for Norwegian) and in other places seems
> to be very .. hardcoded and fragile.
>
> - Are you aware of the fact that CLDR 22 is nearly released? Has there been
> any testing with the interim data, or any plans to do so?
>
> I think the summary again is, talk to us.  Where "us" is the CLDR technical
> committee.
>
> Regards,
> Steven
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Steven R. Loomis <srl at icu-project.org>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   Some questions,
>>
>>   - Is there a reason that a new parser was written, rather than leverage
>> the existing CLDR tools (which are themselves written in Java)?  (I've
>> already suggested discussion with the CLDR-TC.. I know I've been personally
>> more than a bit sparse, but, you know where we 'live')
>>
>>   - It's incorrect to specifically open, for example, common/supplemental/numberingSystems.xml
>> ( NUMBERING_SOURCE_FILE ) . You should not rely on the specific
>> organization. See Appendix C of TR35, however, I filed
>> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/5189 to clarify the situation.
>>
>> More later when I get a chance, but definitely good work here.
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>
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>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review the JDK8 changes for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data
>> Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data
>> (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/127). The webrev is located at:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/6336885/webrev.00/
>>