Locales

1. Locale data

• Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) Project http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
• Yeha - Locales for East Africa (may be out of date http://yeha.sourceforge.net/
• GNU libc locale patch page http://www.hungry.com/~pere/linux/glibc/
• IBM International Components for Unicode demo on locales (lacks some languages in CLDR) http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp
• Microsoft "Locale Explorer" approaches to displaying locale information
  • Culture Explorer 2.0 (for MS .Net)
    • Site http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=B778FF2C-9142-4769-839A-094F51A6F9F4
    • Discussion http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/12/20/1328701.aspx
  • The Locale Explorer (an older MS tool) http://www.flounder.com/localeexplorer.htm

2. Generating locales

• Locale Generator (aka LocaleGEN) v. 1.6 http://www.it46.se/localegen/

This tool was used in Marrackech at the Localizatin Blitz. Here is a link to the work that has been done during that workshop on creating OpenOffice locales.

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