[threeten-dev] CLDR Islamic calendar types

[Dan Chiba]

The proposal looks great.

We updated the variant ID for Umm Al-Qura from "uaq" to "umalqura" to 
match your proposal.

May I ask why there is a padding on "sa" for Saudi Arabia and it becomes 
"cv-sa0"?

I agree with Stephen that ideally each variant should have a full 
specification. I wonder if LDML could simply say the cv value should be 
one of the externally defined standard formal variant identifiers. And 
then there could be a separate registry that assigns the formal ID and 
specifies the variants or provides reference. I think this may take some 
time to establish and we can manually maintain the formal values for the 
time being.

Regards,
-Dan

On 1/24/2013 4:37 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> On 24 January 2013 23:15,<yoshito_umaoka at us.ibm.com>  wrote:
>> As I mentioned earlier, we're trying to define ids for Islamic calendar
>> variants in CLDR.
>> I did some investigation based on inputs including Dan's request, and
>> posted the proposal for review here -
>>
>> http://cldr.unicode.org/development/development-process/design-proposals/islamic-calendar-types
>>
>> I requested CLDR technical committee members to review the proposal and
>> we're planning to conclude this topic next week.
>>
>> If there are any objections or suggestions from three-ten community,
>> please let me know.
> My primary feedback is that LDML should include a clear definition of
> what each variation is. Ideally this would be detailed enough so
> someone could implement the calendar algorithm from the LDML document,
> but clear references to other documents would be a second best.
>
> Otherwise, this will be a good addition.
>
> Stephen