====== Locale Resources ======

  * [[http://www.unicode.org/cldr/|Common Locale Data Repository]]
  * [[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/download/alphabets/ALPHABETS.html|Alphabets]] (what characters appear in a languages alphabet)

The following are useful general resources that can be used during the construction of
your locale files:

  * [[http://www.geonames.de/months.html|Month names in various languages]]
  * [[http://www.geonames.de/days.html|Day of week names in various languages]]
  * [[http://www.geonames.de/languages.html|Language names in their original form]]
  * [[http://www.geonames.de/couza.html|Country details names]] (replace with your country ISO code in the URL)
  * [[wp>List_of_international_license_plate_codes|Car license plate numbers]]
  * [[wp>List_of_country_calling_codes|Dialing codes]]
  * [[wp>List_of_international_call_prefixes|International call prefixes]] (ie what you use to dialout)
  * [[wp>ISBN|ISBN book numbers]] ([[http://www.isbn-international.org/identifiers/allidentifiers.html|2]])
  * [[wp>ISO_3166-1_alpha-2|ISO 3166 2 letter country code]] and [[wp>ISO_3166-1_alpha-3|3 letter codes]] (not many really): 
  * [[http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html|ISO 639 language codes]] ([[http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/iso639-2form.php|Request a new code]])

Collation:

  * [[http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/index.tml|Language collation or character sort orders]]
  * [[http://www.geonames.de/alphtz.html|Some other alphabets]]

Language Specific

  * Venda:
    * [[http://www.africanlanguages.com/venda/|Notes on unicode characters]]
    * Font that can be used for Venda chars 
      * http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_linux