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* purpose
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This tool is to generate globalization information from Unicode CLDR, with some changes
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to fill the gap between .NET(Windows)-ism and the global standard.
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* input resources
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There is only an external resource: unicode CLDR. It can be downloaded from
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http://www.unicode.org/Public/cldr/
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CLDR specificatin can be found at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/
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All content has to me extracted into CLDR folder. The latest version used is 30.0.2.
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There is an extra mono resource included in this directory called lcids.xml for LCIDs. It's
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extracted from National Language Support (NLS) API Reference.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx
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* generated file
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culture-info-table.h contains the following sections:
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- datetime_format_entries
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See DateTimeFormatEntry.AppendTableRow() in DateTimeFormatEntry.cs.
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- number_format_entries
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See NumberFormatEntry.AppendTableRow() in NumberFormatEntry.cs.
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- culture_entries
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See CultureInfoEntry.AppendTableRow() in CultureInfoEntry.cs.
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- culture_name_entries
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See Driver.Run() in Driver.cs.
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- region_entries
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See RegionInfoEntry.AppendTableRow() in RegionInfoEntry.cs.
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- region_name_entries
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See Driver.Run() in Driver.cs.
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- locale_strings
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See Driver.Run() in Driver.cs.
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In each entry, strings are extracted to locale_strings table, and in each structure they are
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represented as an index to the string.
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* updating the data
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Update Makefile.am to get the latest CLDR data. However, CLDR is not complete and
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it's missing data for many rarely used cultures. In such cases we provide empty value
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but when someone has the knowleadge what the values should be it's recommended to
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use online CLDR tool to fill the data gap.
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To create the files used by the runtime after an update, run:
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make culture-table
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make install-culture-table
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At the start of Makefile.am there are additional instructions for specific builds.
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