[threeten-dev] CLDR calendar variants

[Stephen Colebourne]

Can you give us a link to the upcoming 23 release LDML document?
thanks
Stephen


On 21 February 2013 00:55,  <yoshito_umaoka at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Dan raised some concerns about cv-mshijri.
> He and I had some discussions offline and I also forwarded his concerns to
> other CLDR TC folks.
>
> I was initially trying to add the calendar variant subtags into CLDR 23
> relaese and I actually added them into the CLDR source repository.
> However, we don't want to change them after release and it seems his
> concerns are not resolved yet, we decided to defer the addition after CLDR
> 23 release.
>
> The previous proposal was -
>
> <key name="cv" description="Calendar algorithm variant">
>     <type name="caltab" description="Islamic - Calendrica arithmetic"/>
>     <type name="mshijri" description="Islamic - Microsoft Hijri
> calendar"/>
>     <type name="rgsa" description="Islamic - Saudi Arabia visual
> sighting"/>
>     <type name="umalqura" description="Islamic - Umm Al-Qura calendar of
> Saudi Arabia"/>
> </key>
>
> The question is - whether we need to replace "mshijri" with more generic
> name/description. If we go for more generic naming/description for this
> one, then "caltab" may be also changed (it's technically just using Friday
> epoch, instead of Thursday epoch used by MS implementation).
>
> For all others - the key "cv" ad "rgsa"/"umalqura" should be used without
> any changes after CLDR 23.
> CLDR 24 will be planned in September, and we may have CLDR 23.1
> (maintenance update to 23) before that.
>
> -Yoshito