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

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://unicode.org/ ).

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