ReadMe for Unicode CLDR

Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)

Last updated: 2020-Dec-09

This is the final release version of CLDR 38.1.

Important notes for CLDR 36 and later:

The CLDR repository has switched from subversion to git.
Data in the main CLDR repository now includes some elements with the value “↑↑↑” indicating that translators have explicitly determined that the inherited value should always be used.
To generate data in the form that was used for CLDR 35.1 and earlier, in which “↑↑↑” is resolved appropriately (either removed or replaced with an apropriate value) and other minimization is performed, a new tool GenerateProductionData is provided (command-line options provide the ability to specify source and destination directory, among other things).
CLDR data that has been processed by GenerateProductionData is available in the parallel “cldr-staging” repository.

For further information:

Information about CLDR releases and downloads, including the data files and LDML specification associated with each release.
Information about Building and running CLDR Tools

Tools Quickstart:

Build cldr.jar:
ant -f tools/java/build.xml jar
List available tools:
java -jar tools/java/cldr.jar
List less-than-documented tools:
java -jar tools/java/cldr.jar -l
Run the XML Validator against some file.xml:
java -jar tools/java/cldr.jar validate ../path/to/your/file.xml
Run some other tool that doesn't have a nice short alias like 'validate':
java -jar tools/java/cldr.jar org.unicode.cldr.draft.NormalizedIdentifierParser
Convert LDML to JSON data:
java -DCLDR_DIR=/path/to/cldr/data -jar tools/java/cldr.jar ldml2json -r true
More info:
CLDR Tools Website

Licenses:

Usage of CLDR data and software is governed by the Unicode Terms of Use, a copy of which is included as unicode-license.txt.
Some CLDR tools depend on libraries in tools/java/libs/; use of these libraries is governed by separate license agreements.
- Use of the ICU libraries is subject to the ICU License, included as ICU-LICENSE.
- Use of the Guava, Xerces, and Myanmar Tools libraries is subject to the Apache License, included as apache-license.txt.