Extension:CLDR

The CLDR extension contains local language names for different languages, countries, currencies, and time units extracted from CLDR data; see CLDR for information.

Updating data
The CLDR extension comes with data pre-populated in the language files, but if you want to get the latest data from the Unicode Consortium, you'll need to download it from the CLDR site and then run a rebuild script.

Download newest data from CLDR site: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/repository_access.html

Example (from within the cldr directory): wget http://www.unicode.org/Public/cldr/latest/core.zip unzip core.zip -d core php rebuild.php

Language names
CLDR defines the class LanguageNames which has a static method, getNames. LanguageNames::getNames accepts three parameters:
 * 1) code - the ISO 639 (see here for details) code of the preferred language to return the list in
 * 2) fbMethod - fallback method. Should be set to one of the following:
 * 3) * LanguageNames::FALLBACK_NATIVE (default): Missing entries fallback to the native name
 * 4) * LanguageNames::FALLBACK_NORMAL: Missing entries fallback through the fallback chain
 * 5) list - which languages to return. Should be set to one of the following:
 * 6) * LanguageNames::LIST_MW_SUPPORTED: Only languages that have localization in MediaWiki
 * 7) * LanguageNames::LIST_MW (default): All languages that are in Names.php
 * 8) * LanguageNames::LIST_MW_AND_CLDR: All languages that are either in MediaWiki or in CLDR

Example
The following example sets a variable to the list of all languages in MediaWiki and CLDR in English.

Country names
CLDR defines the class CountryNames which has a static method, getNames. CountryNames::getNames accepts one parameter:
 * 1) code - the ISO 639 code of the preferred language to return the list in

Example
The following example sets a variable to the list of all countries in CLDR in French.

Currency names
CLDR defines the class CurrencyNames which has a static method, getNames. CurrencyNames::getNames accepts one parameter:
 * 1) code - the ISO 639 code of the preferred language to return the list in

Example
The following example sets a variable to the list of all currencies in CLDR in German.