Locale Resources

• Common Locale Data Repository
• 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:

• Month names in various languages
• Day of week names in various languages
• Language names in their original form
• Country details names (replace with your country ISO code in the URL)
• Car license plate numbers
• Dialing codes
• International call prefixes (ie what you use to dialout)
• ISBN book numbers (2)
• ISO 3166 2 letter country code and 3 letter codes (not many really):
• ISO 639 language codes

Collation:

• Language collation or character sort orders
• Some other alphabets

Language Specific

• 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