CLDR and glibc

Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Sun Aug 31 21:36:00 GMT 2008


[Troy Korjuslommi]
> A question was raised on the CLDR mailing list about why glibc doesn't
> use CLDR data. I tried to look for a decisive answer, but couldn't find
> one. Does someone know if there is a documented decision on how the two
> datasets are coordinated?

I do not know the answer to your question, but got one question on my
own.  Are the two data sets compatible?  Ie, can a glibc locale file
be generated from CLDR and/or can a CLDR entry be generated from a
glibc locale file?  Are there tools available for doing so?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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