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Broken and stale links to CLDR data files in UTS#35 LDML specification

Description

LDML specification contains many links to CLDR data files.

I found a few patterns of links.

1. Stale link

In the table: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Key_And_Type_Definitions_

The valid values are those name attribute values in the type elements of key name="ca" in bcp47/calendar.xml.

Above one is linked to https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/latest/common/bcp47/calendar.xml
There are a couple of issues with this link.

  • "latest" tag is still at CLDR 36.1 level - https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/latest (Mar 10, 2020)

  • A file linked from a certain version of LDML specification might match the description. For example, LDML specification v38 may link to CLDR v39 data when "latest" is changed to CLDR v39, and the content might not match the older LDML specification.

2. Broken Link

In http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Unicode_Locale_Extension_Data_Files

The 't' extension data is stored in common/bcp47/transform.xml.

This one is linked to https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/latest/common/bcp47/transform.xml which is not reachable.

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Steven R. Loomis February 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM

^ following up on the above for the record:

"Note: Some links may lead to in-development or older versions of the data files. See https://cldr.unicode.org for up-to-date CLDR release data."

Steven R. Loomis February 3, 2022 at 11:35 PM
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at f2f:

  • links should go to main

  • add a warning at the top of every spec page (which could have a link to a more-info page)

Peter Edberg October 28, 2021 at 9:28 PM
Edited

I filed a separate ticket for broken links from LDML spec into sites pages (since that needs a PR): . Many of the other problems above do not need a PR.

Mark Davis October 21, 2021 at 7:23 PM

Steven, as per the discussion in the meeting, I think we should broaden this ticket out to cover:

A. Three kinds of problems:

  • Bad links to the old repo, or

  • to the old Sites, or

  • with http instead of https

B. In four locations

  1. In the LDML spec documents

  2. In any Charts

  3. In the new Sites

  4. In the Survey Tool

Steven R. Loomis February 12, 2021 at 6:25 PM

Need to delete the ‘latest’ tag, it does not make sense in git.

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Created December 1, 2020 at 4:54 PM
Updated February 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Resolved April 6, 2022 at 4:38 PM