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title: Updating Codes

Updating Codes

Note: This is more complicated than it should be: we need to simplify the process. We just haven't gotten there yet with everything else going on!

Steps

First read Running Tools

1. Update Script Metadata
2. Update Population/GDP/Literacy
3. Update Language/Script/Region Subtags
4. Update Subdivision Codes
5. Update Subdivision translations (new)
6. Update Currency Codes
7. Update Time Zone Data for ZoneParser
8. Update Validity XML
   1. Update Language/Script/Country Information
   2. LikelySubtags and Default Content
   3. Update IANA/FIPS Mappings
      1. TBD - Describe what to do. The URLs are
      2. http://www.iana.org/domain-names.htm
      3. http://www.iana.org/root-whois/index.html
      4. http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
9. Reformat plurals/ordinals.xml with GeneratedPluralRules.java. Review carefully before checking in.
   1. Regenerate Supplemental Charts: Generating Charts

For information about Version Info and external metadata, see Updating External Metadata