I wrote an article for the 23rd day of the Perl Advent Calendar 2014 titled CLDR TL;DR, which introduces the Unicode CLDR for software localization and demonstrates the usage of two CLDR-based modules on the CPAN: John Imrie’s Locale::CLDR and my CLDR::Number.


Nova Patch (@novapatch) is a principal engineer at Shutterstock, specializing in internationalization, multilingual search, and building products that support the world’s languages, writing systems, and cultures. They are an open source developer, contributor to the Unicode CLDR, and member of the Unicode Consortium.