Locale Coverage Special Data

Missing Features

The following may be listed as Missing features in a Locale Coverage chart, such as v43 Locale Coverage.

Core

These are supplied or generated from data supplied in Core Data for New Locales.

1. default_content — required in supplied core data

2. country_data — required in supplied core data

3. time_cycle — required in supplied core data

4. likely_subtags — Based on the language population data, a likely subtag mapping is generated. For example, from "de" the likely subtags are "de_Latn_DE".

5. orientation  — generated from exemplar data

Moderate

The following are needed at the Moderate level. The first three should be present before submitting other moderate data

1. casing — for bicameral scripts, what is the normal casing for different kinds of fields (country names, language names, etc). Used internally in the Survey Tool.

2. plurals — the number of different plural forms, and the rules for deriving them. See Plural Rules and Plurals & Units 

3. ordinals — the number of different plural forms, and the rules for deriving them. See Plural Rules and Plurals & Units 

4. collation — rules for the sorting order for a language.

Modern

The following are needed at the Modern level. The grammar should be present before adding grammatical forms (eg for units)

1. grammar — what are the grammatical forms used in a language, in particular usages. 

2. romanization — what are rules for romanizing the language's script.