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<h1>Unicode CLDR Bug Reports</h1>
<p><span class="changed">Most proposed data (new or corrections) should be entered via the </span><a href="survey_tool.html">CLDR Survey Tool</a><span class="changed">.
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<p>Bugs may be filed for defects in the survey tool, for
adding or changing non-language data (such as currency usage), for
additions or changes to data that is not yet handled by the survey tool
(collation, segmentation, and transliteration), and for feature
requests in CLDR or <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/">UTS #35: Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)</a>.</p>
<p>To file such a bug, go to <a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs">Locale Bugs</a>.
Try to give as much information as possible to help address the issue,
and please group related bugs (such as a list of problems with the LDML
specification) into a single bug report. Some specific cases are
covered below.</p>
<h2><a name="Collation_Bugs">Collation Bugs</a></h2>
<p>The exact collation sequence for a given language may be
difficult to determine. The base ordering of characters can be fairly
straightforward, but there are quite a few other complications
involved. </p>
<p><span>Most standards that specify collation, such as DIN
or CS, are not targeted at algorithmic sorting, and are not complete
algorithmic specifications. For example, CSN 97 6030 requires
transliteration of foreign scripts, but there are many choices as to
how to transliterate, and the exact mechanism is not specified. It also
specifies that geometric shapes are sorted by the number of vertices
and edges, which is, at a minimum, difficult to determine; and are
subject to variation in glyphs. </span>T<span>he CLDR goals are to match the sorting of exemplar letters
and common punctuation and
leave everything else to the standard UCA ordering. </span>For more information, see
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Introduction">UTS #10: Unicode Collation Algorithm</a> (UCA).</p>
<p>For readability, the rules are presented here in
Java/ICU rule format, rather than XML; for the same reason, we prefer
the bug reports to also use that format, even though the end result
will be in XML. For more information, see <a href="http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/Collate_Customization.html">ICU Collation Customization</a>.</p>
<p>Please supply some short test cases that illustrate the
correct sorting behavior as a list of lines in sorted order. Try to
include cases that show the boundary behavior by including high
suffixes, such as the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><i>Rules:</i>
<ul>
<li><i>& c < cs</i></li>
<li>& cs <<< ccs / cs</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><i>Test Data:</i>
<ul>
<li><i>c<br>
cy<br>
cs<br>
cscs<br>
ccs<br>
cscsy<br>
ccsy<br>
csy<br>
d</i></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Please test out any suggested rules before filing a bug, using Locale Explorer:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to the <a href="http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/demo/locales">ICU Locale Explorer</a></li>
<li>Pick the appropriate locale</li>
<li>Follow the instructions at the bottom to use your suggested rules on your suggested test data.</li>
<li>Verify that the proper order results.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Pitfalls</h3>
<p>There are a number of pitfalls with collation, so be
careful. In some cases, such as Hungarian or Japanese, the rules can be
fairly complicated (of course, reflecting that the sorting sequence for
those languages is complicated).</p>
<ol>
<li><b>Only tailor expected data. </b>We focus on the required collation sequence for a given language with normal data. So we don't include
full-width characters for a European collation sequence, such as
<ul>
<li>... CSCS <<< ＣＳＣＳ ...</li>
<li>... CSCS <<< \uFF23\uFF33\uFF23\uFF33 ... (equivalently)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Tailor trailing contractions. </b>If a sequence of characters is treated as a unit for collation, it should be entered as a contraction.
<p>& c < ch</p>
<p>One might think that sequence like "dz" doesn't
require that, since it would always come after "d" followed by any
other letter; it is a "trailing contraction". But in unusual cases,
that wouldn't be true; if "dz" is a unit sorted as if it were a
distinct letter after "d", one should get the ordering "d<font size="3">α" < "dz". This will only happen if "dz" is a contraction, such as</font></p>
<p><font size="3">& d < dz</font></p>
</li>
<li><b>Watch out for Expansions.</b> If you have a rule like &cs < d, and "cs" has not occurred in a previous rule as a contraction, then
this is automatically considered to be the same as &c < d / s; that is, the d <i>expands</i> as if it were a "cs" (actually, primary greater
than a "cs", since we wrote "<"). This expansion takes effect until the next primary difference.
<p>So suppose that "ccs" is to behave as if it were
"cscs", and take case differences into account. You might try to do
this with the rules on the left:</p>
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<th align="left" width="50%">Rules (Wrong)</th>
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<td width="50%">& C < cs <<< Cs <<< CS<br>
& cscs <<< ccs<br>
<<< Cscs <<< Ccs<br>
<<< CSCS <<< CCS</td>
<td width="50%">& C < cs <<< Cs <<< CS<br>
& cs <<< ccs / cs<br>
<<< Cscs / cs <<< Ccs / cs<br>
<<< CSCS / cs <<< CCS / cs</td>
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<p>But since the <u>CSCS</u> has not been made a contraction in previous rules, this produces an automatic expansion, one that continues
through the entire sequence of non-primary differences, as shown on the right. This is <i>not</i> what is wanted: each item acts like it
expands compared to the previous item. So CCS, for example, will act like it expands to CSCScs!</p>
<p>What you actually want is the following:</p>
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<th align="left" width="50%">Rules (Right)</th>
<th align="left" width="50%">Actual Effect</th>
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<td width="50%">& C < cs <<< Cs <<< CS<br>
& cscs <<< ccs<br>
& Cscs <<< Ccs<br>
& CSCS <<< CCS</td>
<td width="50%">& C < cs <<< Cs <<< CS<br>
& cs <<< ccs / cs<br>
& Cs <<< Ccs / cs<br>
& CS <<< CCS / CS</td>
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<p>In short, when you have expansions, it is always
safer and clearer to express them with separate resets. There are only
a few exceptions to this, notably when CJK characters are interleaved
with Hangul Syllables.</p>
</li>
<li><b>Don't tailor what you don't have to. </b>Example: Maltese was sorting character sequences <i>before</i> a base character using the
following style:
<p>& B<br>
< ċ<br>
<<<Ċ<br>
< c<br>
<<<C</p>
<p>This works, but is sub-optimal for two reasons. </p>
<ol>
<li>it tailors c/C when it doesn't need to be; any extra tailoring generally makes for longer sort keys.</li>
<li>by tailoring c/C, it puts other those things that are after b/B after c/C instead. See
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/">http://www.unicode.org/charts/collation/</a> for examples.</li>
</ol>
<p>The correct rules should be:</p>
<p>& [before 1] c < ċ <<< Ċ</p>
<p>This finds the highest primary (that's what the 1 is
for) character less than c, and uses that as the reset point. For
Maltese, the same technique needs to be used for ġ and ż.</p>
</li>
<li>Contractions can be blocked with CGJ, as described in the Unicode Standard and in the
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html">Characters and Combining Marks FAQ</a>.</li>
<li>Normally all combinations of case need to be supplied for contractions. That is, if <i>ch</i>
is a contraction, then you would have the rules ... ch < cH < Ch
< CH. The reason for this is so that all case variants sort at the
same primary level: thus lowercasing a string will not affect its
primary order. Cases such as <i>McHugh</i> are handled like other instances where contractions should be blocked.</li>
</ol>
<h2><a name="Possible_Comparison_Sources">Possible Comparison Sources</a></h2>
<p>Sources and references may be standards or can also be dictionaries, journal style guides (such as <i>The Economist Style Guide for English</i>),
and other available sources that provide guidance as to common
practice. Online sources are preferred where available, since they can
be more easily checked.</p>
<p>The goal is to follow common, customary practice. For
example, language or territory display names should use the most
recognizable name in common usage. This is generally not the official
name. For example, one would use "Switzerland" not "Swiss
Confederation".</p>
<p>Here are some possible resources for comparison of locale data. <i>This is <b>not</b> an endorsement of the sources, merely a collation of
possibly-useful links. </i><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To suggest additions, </span></font>
file a <a href="filing_bug_reports.html">Bug Report</a>.</p>
<h3>Territory names; Language names; Gregorian/non-Gregorian month names; Day names; Exemplar characters, and Collation</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.geonames.de/">http://www.geonames.de/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><i>The Economist Style Guide</i> (unfortunately only hard copy): Currencies, Display Names, Formatting for English:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/186197535X">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/186197535X</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Exemplar_Characters">Exemplar Characters</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.eki.ee/letter/">http://www.eki.ee/letter/</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/research/index.htm?http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/isi/special/&1">http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/research/index.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabets_derived_from_the_Latin"><span>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabets_derived_from_the_Latin</span></a><span>
</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm">
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.geonames.de/">http://www.geonames.de/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Territory Names</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.world-gazetteer.com/pronun.htm">http://www.world-gazetteer.com/pronun.htm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.eki.ee/knn/lingid2.htm#WRLD">http://www.eki.ee/knn/lingid2.htm#WRLD</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/europe.html">http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/europe.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Currency names; Territory names (Replace es with desired language code) </h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://publications.eu.int/code/es/es-5000500.htm">http://publications.eu.int/code/es/es-5000500.htm</a> <br>
<a href="http://publications.eu.int/code/es/es-5000700.htm">http://publications.eu.int/code/es/es-5000700.htm</a> <br>
<a href="http://publications.eu.int/">http://publications.eu.int/</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Territory & Region names (Use the links at the top switch languages); </h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.worldlanguage.com/Arabic/Countries/">http://www.worldlanguage.com/Arabic/Countries/</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Exemplar/collation information</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/">http://www.omniglot.com/writing/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.alphabets-world.com/">http://www.alphabets-world.com/</a> <br>
<a href="http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/">http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Simple Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://world.altavista.com/">http://world.altavista.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/language_tools">http://www.google.com/language_tools</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>List of date/time formatting for Windows</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb/">http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb/</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Exemplar Characters; Transliteration</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/">UNGEGN: Working Group on Romanization Systems</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/">Transliteration of Non-Roman Alphabets and Scripts (Søren Binks)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.archivists.org/catalog/stds99/chapter8.html">Standards for Archival Description: Romanization</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/pdf/Hindi-Marathi-Nepali.pdf">ISO-15915 (Hindi)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/pdf/Gujarati.pdf">ISO-15915 (Gujarati) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/pdf/Kannada.pdf">ISO-15915 (Kannada) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cdacindia.com/html/gist/down/iscii_d.asp">ISCII-91</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Geographical Names</h3>
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<li><a href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/">http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3><span>Currencies</span></h3>
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<li><a href="http://www.globalfindata.com/gh/index.html"><span>http://www.globalfindata.com/gh/index.html</span></a><span> </span></li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/">http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/5717.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/5717.asp</a> very complete set of information,
like postal information, currency symbols, date/time formats, calendars,...</li>
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