About locale data ... (again)

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Hi all,

As we always need a good locale database for GNU Classpath, I was 
thinking of a way to get it. The ICU locale converter is only partially 
satisfying as it does not have any collation rules generator (at least). 
I've seen that www.openi18n.org[1][2] has begun a new standard file 
format to interchange locale data. It is purely written in XML form and 
looks well documented. On IBM[3], we can find the locale database 
waiting to be converted.

As it is written in XML it should be fairly simple to write a parser in 
Java for these data.
Once it is parsed, we can (I hope) all the same generate the Java 
classes/properties corresponding to our internal representation.

I may start soon (one/two weeks) to build the parser.

Is there someone against it ?

Cheers,

Guilhem.

[1] http://www.openi18n.org
[2] http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/locale/ldml-spec.html
[3] http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/locale/linux/main/#dirlist