* Metadata updates for release 8.9.16
* Update release notes as there are many auto fixes to geocoding and other metadata files. Removing regions that do not have potential changes.
* Metadata updates for release 8.9.14
* Update region list in release_notes to the regions that contain only potential changes. Other are having only cleanup updates
Alternate metadata and test metadata for C++ was regenerated not due to changes in this commit, but due to PR #1726 and that they should have been updated then.
Update doc references to refer to CLDR and the page of CLDR codes where
appropriate - it used to say ISO country codes were used, but they aren't.
Also updated to refer to two *or three* letter language codes since they may be three letters (we use the shortest defined one for a language)
Updating comments about leadingDigits field at territory level as well.
* Support semicolon as extension character while parsing
* Add notes to pending_code_changes.txt
* JS port: Support semicolon as extension character while parsing
* Update comments in phonenumberutil.js
Metadata changes:
-- Drops the "-1" that was erroneously included in possible lengths before (didn't break anything, but was wrong) - it was a possibleLength of a sub-component so got added to the generalDesc possibleLengths
-- possibleNumberPattern no longer inherited: we don't use this anyway, we will do another CL soon to stop including it at all in the generated metadata
-- exampleNumber is no longer set on fixed-line and mobile elements from the generalDesc
XML file changes:
-- Stopped specifying "NA" and "-1" specifically for fixed-line and mobile blocks; now they are treated as every other type of phone number: if missing, don't fill them in from generalDesc, but leave them missing.
Code changes:
-- Stop using the exampleNumber on generalDesc for non-geo entities, but look at their phonenumber descs - the exampleNumber won't be stored on the generalDesc anymore. This affects porters if they either copied our build logic or used our built metadata in some way; they should update this method in their port too.