About CLDR

The Common Locale Data Repository is a project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data for use in computer applications.

CLDR is the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies (see below) for their software internationalization and localization, adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks.

Contents

• Locale-specific patterns for formatting and parsing: dates, times, timezones, numbers and currency values.

• Translations of names: languages, scripts, countries and regions, currencies, eras, months, weekdays, day periods, timezones, cities, and time units.

• Language & script information: characters used; plural cases; gender of lists; capitalization; rules for sorting & searching; writing direction; transliteration rules; rules for spelling out numbers; rules for segmenting text into graphemes, words, and sentences

• Country information: language usage, currency information, calendar preference and week conventions, and telephone codes

• Other: ISO & BCP 47 code support (cross mappings, etc.), keyboard layouts

Who uses CLDR?

Some of the companies and organizations that use CLDR are:

• Apple (OS X, iOS, Safari, iTunes, ...)
• Google (Web Search, Chrome, Android, Adwords, Google+, Google Maps, Blogger, Google Analytics, ...)
• IBM (DB2, Lotus, Websphere, Tivoli, Rational, AIX, i/OS, z/OS, ...)
• Microsoft (Windows, Windows Phone, Bing, Office, Visual Studio, ...)

and many others, including:

• ABAS Software, Adobe, Amazon (Kindle), Amdocs, Apache, Appian, Argonne National Laboratory, Avaya, Babel (Pocoo library), BAE Systems Geospatial eXploitation Products, BEA, BluePhoenix Solutions, BMC Software, Boost, BroadJump, Business Objects, caris, CERN, Debian Linux, Dell, Eclipse, eBay, EMC Corporation, ESRI, Firebird RDBMS, Free BSD, Gentoo Linux, GroundWork Open Source, GTK+, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems GmbH, HP, Hyperion, Inktomi, Innodata Isogen, Informatica, Intel, Interlogics, IONA, IXOS, Jikes, jQuery, Library of Congress, Mathworks, Mozilla, Netezza, OpenOffice, Oracle (Solaris, Java), Lawson Software, Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping LLC, Mandrake Linux, OCLC, Perl, Progress Software, Python, QNX, Rogue Wave, SAP, Shutterstock, SIL, SPSS, Software AG, SuSE, Symantec, Teradata (NCR), ToolAware, Trend Micro, Twitter, Virage, webMethods, Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), Wine, WMS Gaming, XyEnterprise, Yahoo!, Yelp.