2010-01-21

Localegen is now four years old. What started as small programming project it has became the reference software to create locales for OpenOffice.org. During this last four years, 170 locales has been generated in localegen, around 25% of them has made them into OpenOffice.org code. Latest aditions include: Uyghur, Maithili, Urdu, Maltese, Sardinian, Asturian and Arabic (Oman).

During 2009, we rewrote localegen to facilitate the creation of 100 African locales. Today, Afrigen is the major effort in the world to submit African locales to Unicode!

In 2010, we are looking for a sponsor to continue our work, we plan to include more advance features in our tools (support for collation, community grading of locales, discussion forums, etc).

Thanks to all contributors that have made Localegen and Afrigen a success!

A few notes about localegen and common pitfalls are available at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_submit_new_Locale_Data

2009-04-01

We just migrated localegen to PHP5, if you run in any technical problems let us know. Check it46.se contact details and drop us a line. Thanks for using localegen for three years!

2006-06-22

Documentation on how to create locale files for OpenOffice.org has been added to the web. The documentation includes both the old fashion way that implies using an XML template and how to use the LocaleGEN.

2006-05-07

Today, Locale Generator Version 1.5 was released with a set of bug corrected (thanks Eike Rathke at OpenOffice.org).

See changelog for further information.

2006-03-23

During 1 month's hard work, we have received locale data for more than 20 languages that now have been submitted to CLDR.

We would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you that have been involved in this process and we hope that you want to continue this journey with us.

Although the submission deadline for CLDR 1.4 is met, please continue to submit data through the Locale Generator as it will be integrated to CLDR in a later stage.

The locales submitted to CLDR can be found here.