On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 7:03 AM Jeremy Schneider <schnei...@ardentperf.com> wrote: > It seems to me that the collator_version field is not a good version > identifier to use. > > Just taking a quick glance at the ICU home page right now, it shows that > all of the last 5 versions of ICU have included "additions and > corrections" to locale data itself, including 68 to 69 where the > collator version did not change. > > Is it possible that this "collator_version" only reflects the code that > processes collation data to do comparisons/sorts, but it does not > reflect updates to the locale data itself?
I think it also includes the CLDR version for *some* locales. From a quick look, that includes 'ar', 'ru', 'tr', 'zh'. Jeff, would you mind sharing the same table for one of those? Perhaps 'en' really does depend only on the UCA?