Mountain View, CA, June 29, 2009 - The Unicode® Consortium announced
today the release of a new version of the Unicode Common Locale Data
Repository (Unicode CLDR 1.7.1), providing key building blocks for
software to support the world's languages. Unicode CLDR is by far the
largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data. This data
is used by a wide spectrum of companies for their software
internationalization and localization: adapting software to the
conventions of different languages for such common software tasks as
formatting of dates, times, time zones, numbers, and currency values;
sorting text; choosing languages or countries by name; transliterating
different alphabets; and many others.

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CLDR 1.7.1 is an update release, with no new translations. The main
changes are fixes for numbering systems and currencies, but a number of
other bugs were fixed. See the CLDR 1.7.1 Release Note
<http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads/cldr-1-7-1> for a
full list of changes. There were no changes in the LDML specification.

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Unicode CLDR 1.7 is part of the Unicode locale data project, together
with the Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML:
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/). LDML is an XML format used for
general interchange of locale data, such as in Microsoft's .NET. For web
pages with different views of CLDR data, see
http://unicode.org/cldr/charts.html. For more information about the
Unicode CLDR project (including charts) see http://cldr.unicode.org. The
latest features of CLDR will also be showcased at the 33rd
Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC) on October 14-16, 2009
in San Jose, CA — see http://unicodeconference.org/
<http://www.unicodeconference.org/>.

About the Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and related globalization
standards. The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum
of corporations and organizations in the computer and information
processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, Apple, DENIC eG,
Google, Government of India, Government of Tamil Nadu, IBM, Microsoft,
Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural Language
Technology Research, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, The University of
California at Berkeley, Yahoo!, plus well over a hundred Associate,
Liaison, and Individual members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
(http://unicode.org/ <http://www.unicode.org/>).

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As part of the Unicode 5.2 beta, the following proposed updates for
Unicode Standard Annexes have significant new revisions:

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UAX #31 Unicode Identifier and Pattern Syntax
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/tr31-10.html

The main changes are the addition of characters and new scripts to
tables for:

* Candidates for Inclusion in Identifiers
* Candidate Characters for Exclusions from Identifiers
* Recommended Scripts

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UAX#9 Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-20.html

The main changes are the addition of:

* a section on Bidi Conformance Testing
* the Bidi_Class BN to Rule X6 (removing certain characters from
Bidi processing)
* a clause in HL6 providing for mirroring of R and AL characters in
certain circumstances

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More details are in the Modifications section of each document, and
there remain some editorial notes asking for feedback on particular
issues. Feedback for both of these documents is solicited by August 3, 2009.

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by
submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode mail list, then please use
the following link to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware that
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recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above to
generate comments for UTC consideration.

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The next version of the Unicode Standard will be Version 5.2.0. The beta
information page for Unicode 5.2.0 is located at:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/beta.html

This version is planned for release in October 2009. A beta version of
the 5.2.0 Unicode Character Database files is also available for public
comment. We strongly encourage implementers to download these files and
test them with their programs, well before the end of the beta period,
August 3, 2009. These files are located in:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/
ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/

For detailed information and guidance on how to focus your review, see
the section Notable Issues for Beta Testers on the beta page.

The beta information page tells how to report comments and initiate
discussions.

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