[I18n-sig] Anyone here? :)

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:40 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> >>There's still a lot to do on the Unicode front:
> >>
> >>* Unicode collation support (this is what Jim's after)
> >>
> >>	http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/
> >>
> >>* Unicode compression
> >>
> >>	http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr6/
> >>
> >>* Adding Locale Data support:
> >>
> >>	http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-5.html
> >>	http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
> >>
> >>  This is a rather new option and would finally make
> >>  Python independent from the libc locale support which
> >>  causes much trouble in user-land.
> > 
> > 
> > What is a rather new option?  CLDR?
> 
> Yes, CLDR.
> 
> > Hasn't ICU covered this ground already?
> 
> No idea, I haven't looked at ICU yet - but from a glimpse
> at the site:
> 
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp
> 
> it looks as if most things are available in ICU.
> 
> The downside is its footprint:
> 
> http://icu.sourceforge.net/charts/icu4c_footprint.html
> 
> Not sure about the in-memory footprint, though.

Looking a bit further, it seems that ICU uses and is the 
most popular library for using CLDR.

> > In any case, is someone working on leveraging CLDR in Python?
> >
> > Are you aware of any work to wrap ICU besides PICU and the work
> > Stephan Richter did leveraging some of the ICU data in Zope?
> 
> No.

Dang.

Jim

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