CLDR

[Kevin Bortis <bortis translate-wae ch>]

On 20 Mar 2009 Roozbeh has announced, that gnome will eventually use 
CLDR data in the future. Are there any news about that, or is the 
project dead?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2009-March/msg00334.html

It would be extremly helpful, if the big desktop enviroments (GNOME and 
KDE) would use the CLDR data provided by the unicode consortium. The 
biggest problem is, that the glibc maintainers are not very interessted 
in updating and handling localisation data. So most patches will never 
going to glibc, until some of the devs have a very good day. Glibc has 
also a problem with the review process. For most languages the 
developers can't peer review, because they simply don't understand the 
language. This leads to poor quality in locales. On contrary, unicode 
has set up a stunning development infrastructure. The development cycle 
goes always through data entry, peer review and a verification cycle, 
befor they release a new version of the data.

Regards