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<h1>UNICODE CHARACTER DATABASE</h1>
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<h3><br>
S<i>ummary</i></h3>
<blockquote>
<p><i>This document describes the format and content of the Unicode Character Database (UCD)</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><i>Status</i></h3>
<blockquote>
<p><i>This file and the files described herein are part of the Unicode Character Database and
are governed by the terms of use at <a href="http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html">
http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>The <a href="#References">References</a> provide related information that is useful in
understanding this document.</i></p>
<p><i><b>Warning: </b>the information in this file does not completely describe the use and
interpretation of Unicode character properties and behavior. It must be used in conjunction with
the data in the other files in the Unicode Character Database, and relies on the notation and
definitions supplied in <a href="http://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html">The Unicode
Standard</a>. All chapter references are to Version 5.0.0 of the standard unless otherwise
indicated.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#Conformance">Conformance</a></li>
<li><a href="#UCD_File_Format">UCD File Format</a></li>
<li><a href="#UCD_Files">UCD Property Files</a></li>
<li><a href="#Auxiliary_Property_Files">Auxiliary Property Files</a></li>
<li><a href="#Derived_Extracted_Properties">Derived Extracted Property Files</a></li>
<li><a href="#Other_UCD_Files">Other UCD Files</a></li>
<li><a href="#Properties">Properties</a></li>
<li><a href="#Property_and_Property_Value_Matching">Property and Property Value Matching</a></li>
<li><a href="#Property_Invariants">Property Invariants</a></li>
<li><a href="#Property_Values">Property Values</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#General_Category_Values">General Category Values</a></li>
<li><a href="#Bidi_Class_Values">Bidi Class Values</a></li>
<li><a href="#Character_Decomposition_Mappings">Character Decomposition Mapping</a></li>
<li><a href="#Canonical_Combining_Class_Values">Canonical Combining Classes</a></li>
<li><a href="#Decompositions_and_Normalization">Decompositions and Normalization</a></li>
<li><a href="#Case_Mappings">Case Mappings</a></li>
<li><a href="#Unihan_Tags">Unihan Tags</a></li>
<li><span class="changedspan"><a href="#Validating_Property_Values">Validating Property
Values</a></span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#References">References</a></li>
<li><a href="#Modification_History">Modification History</a></li>
<li><a href="#UCD_Terms">UCD Terms of Use</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
<p>The Unicode Character Database (UCD) is a set of files that define the Unicode character
properties and internal mappings. This document describes the properties and files that are part
of The Unicode Standard, Version <span>5.1.0 [<a href="#U5.1.0">U5.1.0</a>]</span>. For a
description of the changes in this version, see <a href="#Modification_History">Modification
History</a>.</p>
<p align="left"><span>The file structure for the UCD changed in Version 4.1.0. From that point on, the
successive versions of the UCD are complete versions, so that users of the standard do not
need to assemble the correct version of each file from different update directories for previous
versions in order to have a complete set of files for a version. Each version is in a directory of
the following form:</span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/">
http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/</a></span></p>
<p><span>Within this directory the structure is the same as in versions prior to 4.1.0, with two
changes:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>The file names are unversioned in the final release (although
they may be versioned during beta review of the UCD data). This allows people using the files to
not worry about removing the release versions from the individual files, and allows the html
files in the release to link to specific files.</span></li>
<li><span>An auxiliary directory has been added. In Version 5.1.0 it contains properties associated with
UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>].</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Conformance">Conformance</a></h2>
<p>For information on the meaning and application of the terms <i>normative, informative, </i>and<i>
provisional</i>, see Section 3.5, "Properties" in the Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.</p>
<h2><a name="UCD_File_Format">UCD File Format</a></h2>
<p>Files in the UCD use the following format, unless otherwise specified.</p>
<ul>
<li>Each line of data consists of fields separated by semicolons. The fields are numbered
starting with zero. Code points are expressed as hexadecimal numbers with four to six digits.
They are written without "U+". Within a sequence of code points, spaces are used for separation.
Leading and trailing spaces within a field are not significant.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The first field (0) of each line in the Unicode Character Database files represents a code
point or range. The remaining fields (1..n) are properties associated with that code point.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>A range of code points is specified by the form "X..Y". Each code point from X to Y has the
associated property value. For example (from <a href="Blocks.txt">Blocks.txt</a>):
<blockquote>
<pre>0000..007F; Basic Latin
0080..00FF; Latin-1 Supplement</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>Property values may be omitted if they have a "default" value. For string properties, the
default value is the character itself. For others, the default value is listed in a comment. For
example (from <a href="Scripts.txt">Scripts.txt</a>):
<blockquote>
<pre># All code points not explicitly listed for Script
# have the value Common (Zyyy).</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>Where a file contains values for multiple properties, the second field will contain the name
of the property and the third field will contain the property value. For example (from
<a href="DerivedNormalizationProps.txt">DerivedNormalizationProps.txt</a>):
<blockquote>
<pre>03D2 ; FC_NFKC; 03C5 # L& GREEK UPSILON WITH HOOK SYMBOL
03D3 ; FC_NFKC; 03CD # L& GREEK UPSILON WITH ACUTE AND HOOK SYMBOL
</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>For binary properties, the second field given is the name of the applicable property, with
the implied value of the property being "True". Only the ranges of characters with the binary
property value of True are listed. For example (from <a href="PropList.txt">PropList.txt</a>):
<blockquote>
<pre>1680 ; White_Space # Zs OGHAM SPACE MARK
180E ; White_Space # Zs MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
2000..200A ; White_Space # Zs [11] EN QUAD..HAIR SPACE</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li><span class="changedspan">For backwards compatibility, in the file <a href="UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> a
range is specified not by the form "X..Y", but by an entry for the
start and end characters of the range.
Instead of a character name in the name field, a range identifier, followed by a comma
and the string "First", in angle brackets, is given for the start character:
<CJK Ideograph, First>. The end character is indicated with the same range identifier,
followed by a comma and the string "Last", in angle brackets: <CJK Ideograph, Last>.
In such cases, the names of all characters in the range are algorithmically derivable.
See [<a href="#U5.0">U5.0</a>] for more information on derivation of character names for such ranges.</span></li>
<li>Surrogate code points and private-use characters have no names.</li>
<li>Hash marks ("#") are used to indicate comments: all characters from the hash mark to the end
of the line are comments, and disregarded when parsing data. In many files, the comments on data
lines use a common format.
<blockquote>
<pre>00BC..00BE ; numeric # No [3] VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER..VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS</pre>
</blockquote>
</li>
<li>The first part of the comment is generally the UCD general category. The symbol "L&"
indicates characters of type Lu, Ll, or Lt. This is the same as the LC property in
PropertyValueAliases. The code point ranges are calculated so that they all have the same
General Category (or LC). While this results in more ranges than are strictly necessary, it
makes the contents of the ranges clearer. The second part of the comment (in square brackets),
indicates the number of items in a range, if there is one. The third part is the name of the
character in field zero: if it is a range, then the character names for the ends of the range
are separated by "..".
<ul>
<li>However, the comments are purely informational, and may change format or be omitted in the
future. They should not be parsed for content.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>In the QuickCheck property table, NF* refers to one of NFD, NFC, NFKC, or NFKD.</li>
<li>The Unihan data format differs from the standard format, and is described in
<a href="Unihan.html">Unihan.html</a>. That file also describes which properties are informative, which are normative, and
which are provisional.</li>
<li>In some cases, segments of a data file are distinguished by a line starting with an "@" sign.</li>
<li>The files use UTF-8, with the exception of NamesList.txt, which is
encoded in Latin-1. Unless otherwise noted, non-ASCII characters only
appear in comments.</li>
<li><span class="changedspan"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">A</span> string property
value for a code point may be omitted in a data file if it is
the same as the code point itself. Missing string property values may have other default
values; see the documentation for the particular property for details. See also <a href="#Validating_Property_Values">Validating Property
Values</a>.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="UCD_Files">UCD Property Files</a></h2>
<p>The following table describes the format and meaning of each property data file in
the main directory of the UCD. (An
index by property name, rather than file, is found at <a href="#Properties">Properties</a>.) The
first column lists the files and the properties for which they contain data. The second column
indicates the type of the property: <b>S</b>tring, <b>N</b>umeric, <b>E</b>numeration (non-binary), <b>B</b>inary, <b>C</b>atalog, or
<b>M</b>iscellaneous. Catalog properties have enumerated values which are expected
to be regularly extended with successive versions of the Unicode Standard. This distinguishes them
from Enumeration properties, whose enumerated values constitute a logical partition space, for
which new values will generally not be added in successive versions of the standard. An example of
a Catalog property is the Block property. Miscellaneous properties do not fit into the other
property categories, and currently include character names, comments about characters, or the Unicode_Radical_Stroke property (a combination of numeric values). The third column indicates the
status (<b>N</b>ormative, <b>I</b>nformative, or <b>P</b>rovisional), and the fourth column provides a description of
the data.</p>
<p>The files with a small number of properties are listed first, followed by the files with a
large number of properties: <a href="#DerivedCoreProperties.txt">DerivedCoreProperties.txt</a>,
<a href="#DerivedNormalizationProps.txt">DerivedNormalizationProps.txt</a>,
<a href="#Proplist.txt">Proplist.txt</a>, and <a href="#UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a>. For
UnicodeData, the field numbers are supplied in the description. In a number of cases, fields in a
data file only contribute to a UCD property; for example, the name field in
<a href="#UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> does not provide all the values for the Name
property; <a href="#Jamo.txt">Jamo.txt</a> must be used as well.</p>
<p>None of these properties should be used without consulting the relevant discussions in the
Unicode Standard.</p>
<p>Where a data file does not explicitly list property values for all code points, the code points
are given default property values. These default property values are documented in the data files,
with the exception of <a href="#UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a>. For that case the default
property values are listed below in parentheses after the property name, with (=) indicating the
code point itself. The default property values are also documented in any corresponding
extracted data file.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="ArabicShaping.txt">ArabicShaping.txt</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Joining_Type">Joining_Type</a><br>
<a name="Joining_Group">Joining_Group</a></td>
<td>E</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Basic Arabic and Syriac character shaping properties, such as initial, medial and final
shapes. See Section 8.2 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].<p><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="BidiMirroring.txt">BidiMirroring.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph">Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph</a></td>
<td>S</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>Properties for substituting characters in an implementation of bidirectional mirroring.
See <span>UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm [<a href="#BIDI">BIDI</a>]</span>. Do not
confuse this with the Bidi_Mirrored property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="Blocks.txt">Blocks.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Block">Block</a></td>
<td>C</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>List of block names, which are arbitrary names for ranges of code
points. See Chapter 17 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="CompositionExclusions.txt">
CompositionExclusions.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Composition_Exclusion">Composition Exclusion</a></td>
<td>B</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Properties for normalization. See <span>UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms [<a href="#Norm">Norm</a>]</span>.
Unlike other files, CompositionExclusions simply lists the relevant code points.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="CaseFolding.txt">CaseFolding.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Simple_Case_Folding">Simple_Case_Folding</a><br>
<a name="Case_Folding">Case_Folding</a></td>
<td>S</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Mapping from characters to their case-folded forms. This is an informative file containing
normative derived properties.<p><span class="changedspan"><i><b>Note: </b>The value may be omitted in the data file if
it is
the same as the code point itself</i>.</span></p>
<p><i>Derived from UnicodeData and SpecialCasing.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="DerivedAge.txt">DerivedAge.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Age">Age</a></td>
<td>C</td>
<td align="center">N/I</td>
<td>This file shows when various code points were designated/assigned in successive versions
of the Unicode standard.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="EastAsianWidth.txt">EastAsianWidth.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="East_Asian_Width">East_Asian_Width</a></td>
<td>E</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>Properties for determining the choice of wide vs. narrow glyphs in East Asian contexts.
Property values are described in <span>UAX #11: East Asian Width [<a href="#Width">Width</a>]</span>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">
<p align="LEFT"><a name="HangulSyllableType.txt">HangulSyllableType.txt</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Hangul_Syllable_Type">Hangul_Syllable_Type</a><br>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">E</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">The values L, V, T, LV, and LVT used in Chapter 3 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">
<p align="LEFT"><a name="Jamo.txt">Jamo.txt</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><i><a name="Jamo_Short_Name">
Jamo_Short_Name</a></i><br>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">The Hangul Syllable names are derived from the Jamo Short
Names, as described in Chapter 3 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="LineBreak.txt">LineBreak.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Line_Break">Line_Break</a></td>
<td>E</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Properties for line breaking. For more information, see <span>UAX #14: Line Breaking
Properties [<a href="#Line">Line</a>].</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">
<p align="LEFT"><a name="NameAliases.txt">NameAliases.txt</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Name_Alias">Name_Alias</a><br>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">M</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">Normative formal aliases for character with erroneous
names as described in Chapter 4. These aliases match exactly the formal
aliases published in the code charts of the Unicode Standard.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">
<p align="LEFT"><a name="NormalizationCorrections.txt">NormalizationCorrections.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><i>used in Decomposition Mappings</i></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">NormalizationCorrections lists code point differences for <i>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/errata/index.html">Normalization Corrigenda</a>. </i>
For more information, see <span>UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms [<a href="#Norm">Norm</a>]</span>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="PropertyAliases.txt">PropertyAliases.txt</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>n/a</i></td>
<td>S</td>
<td align="center">N/I</td>
<td>Property names and abbreviations. These names can be used for XML formats of UCD data, for
regular-expression property tests, and other programmatic textual descriptions of Unicode
data.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">PropertyValueAliases.txt</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>n/a</i></td>
<td>S</td>
<td align="center">N/I</td>
<td>Property value names and abbreviations. These names can be used for XML formats of UCD
data, for regular-expression property tests, and other programmatic textual descriptions of
Unicode data.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="Scripts.txt">Scripts.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Script">Script</a></td>
<td>C</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>Default script values for use in regular expressions. For more information, see <span>UAX
#24: Script Names [<a href="#Scripts">Script</a>]</span>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">SpecialCasing.txt</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Uppercase_Mapping">Uppercase_Mapping<br>
</a><a name="Lowercase_Mapping">Lowercase_Mapping</a><br>
<a name="Titlecase_Mapping">Titlecase_Mapping</a><br>
<span class="removedspan">
<a name="Special_Case_Condition">Special_Case_Condition</a></span></td>
<td>S</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>Data for producing (in combination with Unicode Data) the full case mappings.<p>
<span class="changedspan"><i><b>Note: </b>The value may be omitted in the data file if it is
the same as the code point itself; in the case of Titlecase_Mapping, if it is the same as the
uppercase.</i></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="Unihan.txt">Unihan.txt</a> (for more
information, see <span><a href="Unihan.html">Unihan.html</a></span>)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Numeric_Type_Han">Numeric_Type</a><br>
<a name="Numeric_Value_Han">Numeric_Value</a></td>
<td>E</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>The characters tagged with <a href="Unihan.html#kPrimaryNumeric">kPrimaryNumeric</a>,
<a href="Unihan.html#kAccountingNumeric">kAccountingNumeric</a>, and
<a href="Unihan.html#kOtherNumeric">kOtherNumeric</a> are given the Numeric_Type <i>numeric</i>,
and the values indicated.
<p>Most characters have these properties based on values from the UnicodeData.txt data file.
See <a href="#Numeric_Type">Numeric_Type</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a name="Unicode_Radical_Stroke">Unicode_Radical_Stroke</a>
<p> </td>
<td>M</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>The Unicode radical stroke count, based on the tag <a href="Unihan.html#kRSUnicode">
kRSUnicode</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="DerivedCoreProperties.txt">
DerivedCoreProperties.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Alphabetic">Alphabetic</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters with the Alphabetic property. For more information, see
Chapter 4 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].<p><i>Generated from: <a href="#Other_Alphabetic">Other_Alphabetic</a> + Lu + Ll + Lt + Lm +
Lo + Nl</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top"><span class="changedspan">For programmatic determination of default ignorable code points. New
characters that should be ignored in rendering (unless explicitly supported) will be assigned
in these ranges, permitting programs to correctly handle the default rendering of such
characters when not otherwise supported. For more information, see the FAQ
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/faq/unsup_char.html">Display of Unsupported Characters</a>,
and <i>Section 5.20</i>
in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].
</span>
<p><span class="changedspan"><i>Generated from <a href="#Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">
Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a><br>
+ Cf + Cc + Cs + Noncharacter_Code_Point<br>
+ Variation_Selector<br>
- White_Space<br>
- FFF9..FFFB (annotation characters)<br>
- 0600..0603, 06DD, 070F (special Arabic and Syriac formatting characters)</i></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Lowercase">Lowercase</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters with the Lowercase property. For more information, see
Chapter 4 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].<p><i>Generated from: <a href="#Other_Lowercase">Other_Lowercase</a> + Ll</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Grapheme_Base">Grapheme_Base</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">For programmatic determination of grapheme cluster boundaries. For more
information, see <span>UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span>.
<p><i>Generated from: [0..10FFFF] - Cc - Cf - Cs - Co - Cn - Zl - Zp -
<a href="#Grapheme_Extend">Grapheme_Extend</a></i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Grapheme_Extend">Grapheme_Extend</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">For programmatic determination of grapheme cluster boundaries. For more
information, see <span>UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span>.
<p><i>Generated from: <a href="#Other_Grapheme_Extend">Other_Grapheme_Extend</a> + Me + Mn</i></p>
<p><b>Note: </b>depending on an application's interpretation of Co (private use), they may be
either in Grapheme_Base, or in Grapheme_Extend, or in neither.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="ID_Start">ID_Start</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="2"><span>Used to determine programming identifiers, as described
in UAX #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax [<a href="#Pattern">Pattern</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="ID_Continue">ID_Continue</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Math">Math</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters with the Math property. For more information, see
Chapter 4 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].<p><i>Generated from: Sm + <a href="#Other_Math">Other_Math</a></i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Uppercase">Uppercase</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters with the Uppercase property. For more information, see
Chapter 4 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].<p><i>Generated from: Lu + <a href="#Other_Lowercase">Other_Uppercase</a></i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="XID_Start">XID_Start</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="2"><span>Used to determine programming identifiers, as described
in UAX #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax [<a href="#Pattern">Pattern</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="XID_Continue">XID_Continue</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="DerivedNormalizationProps.txt">
DerivedNormalizationProps.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Full_Composition_Exclusion">Full_Composition_Exclusion</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Characters that are excluded from composition: those explicitly in
CompositionExclusions.txt, plus:<br>
<i>(3) Singleton Decompositions</i><br>
<i>(4) Non-Starter Decompositions</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Expands_On_NFC">Expands_On_NFC</a><br>
<a name="Expands_On_NFD">Expands_On_NFD</a><br>
<a name="Expands_On_NFKC">Expands_On_NFKC</a><br>
<a name="Expands_On_NFKD">Expands_On_NFKD</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Characters that expand to more than one character in the specified
normalization form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="FC_NFKC_Closure">FC_NFKC_Closure</a></td>
<td valign="top">S</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Characters that require extra mappings for closure under Case Folding plus
Normalization Form KC. Characters marked with this property have a third field with the
mapping in it. Generated with the following, where Fold is the default fold operation (not
Turkic):
<pre>b = NFKC(Fold(a));
c = NFKC(Fold(b));
if (c != b) add mapping from a to c</pre>
<p><span class="changedspan"><i><b>Note: </b>The value may be omitted in the data file if it is
the same as the code point itself</i>.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="NFD_Quick_Check">NFD_Quick_Check</a><br>
<a name="NFKD_Quick_Check">NFKD_Quick_Check</a><br>
<a name="NFC_Quick_Check">NFC_Quick_Check</a><br>
<a name="NFKC_Quick_Check">NFKC_Quick_Check</a></td>
<td valign="top">E</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">For property values, see <a href="#Decompositions_and_Normalization">
Decompositions and Normalization</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4"><a name="Proplist.txt">Proplist.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="ASCII_Hex_Digit">ASCII_Hex_Digit</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">ASCII characters commonly used for the representation of hexadecimal numbers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Bidi_Control">Bidi_Control</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Those format control characters which have specific functions in the
Bidirectional Algorithm.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Dash">Dash</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Those punctuation characters explicitly called out as dashes in the Unicode
Standard, plus compatibility equivalents to those. Most of these have the Pd General Category,
but some have the Sm General Category because of their use in mathematics.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Deprecated">Deprecated</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">For a machine-readable list of deprecated characters. No characters will ever
be removed from the standard, but the usage of deprecated characters is strongly discouraged.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Diacritic">Diacritic</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters that linguistically modify the meaning of another character to
which they apply. Some diacritics are not combining characters, and some combining characters
are not diacritics.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Extender">Extender</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters whose principal function is to extend the value or shape of a
preceding alphabetic character. Typical of these are length and iteration marks.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Grapheme_Link">Grapheme_Link</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in determining default grapheme cluster boundaries. For more
information, see <span>UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Hex_Digit">Hex_Digit</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters commonly used for the representation of hexadecimal numbers, plus
their compatibility equivalents.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Hyphen">Hyphen</a> (<a href="#Stabilized">Stabilized</a>
as of 3.2)</td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Those dashes used to mark connections between pieces of words, plus the
Katakana middle dot. The Katakana middle dot functions like a hyphen, but is shaped like a dot
rather than a dash.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Ideographic">Ideographic</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Characters considered to be CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese)
ideographs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="IDS_Binary_Operator">IDS_Binary_Operator</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in Ideographic Description Sequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="IDS_Trinary_Operator">IDS_Trinary_Operator</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in Ideographic Description Sequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Join_Control">Join_Control</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Those format control characters which have specific functions for control of
cursive joining and ligation.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Logical_Order_Exception">Logical_Order_Exception</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">There are a small number of characters that do not use logical order. These
characters require special handling in most processing.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Noncharacter_Code_Point">Noncharacter_Code_Point</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Code points that are permanently reserved for internal
use.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Alphabetic">Other_Alphabetic</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Alphabetic property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">
Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Default_Ignorable_Code_Point property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Grapheme_Extend">Other_Grapheme_Extend</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Grapheme_Extend property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><span><a name="Other_ID_Continue">Other_ID_Continue</a></span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>B</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>N</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>Used for backwards compatibility of <a href="#ID_Continue">ID_Continue</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_ID_Start">Other_ID_Start</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used for backwards compatibility of <a href="#ID_Start">ID_Start</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Lowercase">Other_Lowercase</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Lowercase property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Math">Other_Math</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Math property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Other_Uppercase">Other_Uppercase</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Used in deriving the Uppercase property.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a name="Pattern_Syntax">Pattern_Syntax</a></span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>B</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>N</span></td>
<td valign="top" rowspan="2"><span>Used for pattern syntax as described in UAX #31: Identifier
and Pattern Syntax [<a href="#Pattern">Pattern</a>].</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a name="Pattern_White_Space">Pattern_White_Space</a></span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>B</span></td>
<td valign="top"><span>N</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Quotation_Mark">Quotation_Mark</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Those punctuation characters that function as quotation marks.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Radical">Radical</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in Ideographic Description Sequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Soft_Dotted">Soft_Dotted</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Characters with a "soft dot", like <i>i</i> or <i>j.</i> An accent placed on
these characters causes the dot to disappear. An explicit <i>dot above</i> can be added where
required, such as in Lithuanian.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="STerm">STerm</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Sentence Terminal. Used in <span>UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>].</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Terminal_Punctuation">Terminal_Punctuation</a></td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top">I</td>
<td valign="top">Those punctuation characters that generally mark the end of textual units.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Unified_Ideograph">Unified_Ideograph</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Used in Ideographic Description Sequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="Variation_Selector">Variation_Selector</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Indicates all those characters that qualify as Variation Selectors. For
details on the behavior of these characters, see <a href="StandardizedVariants.html">
StandardizedVariants.html</a> and
Section 16.4, Variation Selectors in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left"><a name="White_Space">White_Space</a></td>
<td valign="top">B</td>
<td valign="top">N</td>
<td valign="top">Those separator characters and control characters which should be treated by
programming languages as "white space" for the purpose of parsing elements.
<p><b>Note:</b> ZERO WIDTH SPACE and ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE are not included, since their
functions are restricted to line-break control. Their names are unfortunately misleading in
this respect.</p>
<p><b>Note: </b>There are other senses of "whitespace" that encompass a different set of
characters.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="LEFT" colspan="4">
<p align="LEFT"><a name="UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Name">Name</a>* (<reserved>)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">M</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(1) These names match exactly the names published in the code charts of the
Unicode Standard. The Hangul Syllable names are omitted from this file; see Jamo.txt.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="General_Category">General_Category</a> (Cn)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">E</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(2) This is a useful breakdown into various character types which can be used
as a default categorization in implementations. For the property values, see
<a href="#General_Category_Values">General Category Values</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Canonical_Combining_Class">Canonical_Combining_Class</a> (0)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(3) The classes used for the Canonical Ordering Algorithm in the Unicode
Standard. For the property value names associated with different numeric values, see
DerivedCombiningClass.txt and <a href="#Canonical_Combining_Class_Values">Canonical Combining
Class Values</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Bidi_Class">Bidi_Class</a> (L, AL, R)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">E</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(4) These are the categories required by the Bidirectional Behavior Algorithm
in the Unicode Standard. For the property values, see <a href="#Bidi_Class_Values">Bidi Class
Values</a>. For more information, see <span>UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm [<a href="#BIDI">BIDI</a>].</span><p>
The default property values depend on the code point<span>, and are given in
<a href="extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt">extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Decomposition_Type">Decomposition_Type</a> (None)<br>
<a name="Decomposition_Mapping">Decomposition_Mapping</a> (=)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">E<br>
S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(5) This field contains both values, with the type in angle brackets. The
decomposition mappings match exactly the decomposition mappings published with the character
names in the Unicode Standard. For more information, see
<a href="#Character_Decomposition_Mappings">Character Decomposition Mappings</a>. <p>
<span class="changedspan"><i><b>Note: </b>The decomposition mapping may be omitted in the data file if
it is
the same as the code point itself</i>.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" rowspan="3"><a name="Numeric_Type">Numeric_Type</a> (None)<br>
<a name="Numeric_Value">Numeric_Value</a> (Not a Number)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">E<br>
N</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(6) If the character has the <i>decimal digit</i> property, as specified in
Chapter 4 of the Unicode Standard, then the value of that digit is represented with an integer
value in fields 6, 7, and 8.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">E<br>
N</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(7) If the character has the <i>digit</i> property, but is not a decimal
digit, then the value of that digit is represented with an integer value in fields 7 and 8.
This covers digits that need special handling, such as the compatibility superscript digits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">E<br>
N</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(8) If the character has the <i>numeric</i> property, as specified in Chapter
4 of the Unicode Standard, the value of that character is represented with a positive or
negative integer or rational number in this field. This includes fractions such as, e.g., "1/5" for
U+2155 VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH.
<p>Some characters have these properties based on values from the Unihan data file. See
<a href="#Numeric_Type_Han">Numeric_Type, Han</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Bidi_Mirrored">Bidi_Mirrored</a> (N)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">B</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(9) If the character has been identified as a "mirrored" character in
bidirectional text, this field has the value "Y"; otherwise "N". The list of mirrored
characters is also printed in Chapter 4 of the Unicode Standard. <i>Do not confuse this with
the Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph property.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Unicode_1_Name">Unicode_1_Name</a> (<none>)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">M</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">I</td>
<td valign="top">(10) This is the old name as published in Unicode 1.0. This name is only
provided when it is significantly different from the current name for the character. The value
of field 10 for control characters does not always match the Unicode 1.0 names. Instead, field
10 contains ISO 6429 names for control functions, for printing in the code charts.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="ISO_Comment">ISO_Comment</a> (<none>)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">M</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">I</td>
<td valign="top">(11) This is the ISO 10646 comment field. It appears in parentheses in the
10646 names list, or contains an asterisk to mark an Annex P note.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Simple_Uppercase_Mapping">Simple_Uppercase_Mapping</a> (=)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(12) Simple uppercase mapping (single character result). If a character is
part of an alphabet with case distinctions, and has a simple upper case equivalent, then the
upper case equivalent is in this field. See the explanation below on case distinctions. The
simple mappings have a single character result, where the full mappings may have
multi-character results. For more information, see <a href="#Case_Mappings">Case Mappings</a>.
<p><i><b>Note: </b>The simple uppercase may be omitted in the data file if the uppercase is
the same as the code point itself</i>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Simple_Lowercase_Mapping">Simple_Lowercase_Mapping</a> (=)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(13) Simple lowercase mapping (single character result). Similar to Uppercase
mapping.
<p><i><b>Note: </b>The simple lowercase may be omitted in the data file if the lowercase is
the same as the code point itself</i>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><a name="Simple_Titlecase_Mapping">Simple_Titlecase_Mapping</a> (=)</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">S</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
<td valign="top">(14) Similar to Uppercase mapping (single character result).
<p><i><b>Note: </b>The simple titlecase may be omitted in the data file if the titlecase is
the same as the uppercase.</i></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><b>Note: </b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a name="Stabilized"><b>Stabilized</b></a> properties are no longer actively maintained, nor
are they extended as new characters are added.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><span><a name="Auxiliary_Property_Files">Auxiliary Property Files</a></span></h2>
<p><span>A number of auxiliary properties are contained in files in the <i>
auxiliary </i>subdirectory. They consist of the following:</span></p>
<table id="table1">
<tr>
<th><span>GraphemeBreakProperty.txt</span></th>
<th> </th>
<th align="center"><span>N/I</span></th>
<th> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a name="Grapheme_Cluster_Break">Grapheme_Cluster_Break</a></span></td>
<td><span>E</span></td>
<td align="center"><span>I</span></td>
<td><p><span>See UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><span>SentenceBreakProperty.txt</span></th>
<th> </th>
<th align="center"> </th>
<th> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a name="Sentence_Break">Sentence_Break</a></span></td>
<td><span>E</span></td>
<td align="center"><span>I</span></td>
<td>
<p><span>See UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th><span>WordBreakProperty.txt</span></th>
<th> </th>
<th align="center"> </th>
<th> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a name="Word_Break">Word_Break</a></span></td>
<td><span>E</span></td>
<td align="center"><span>I</span></td>
<td>
<p><span>See UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2><br>
<a name="Derived_Extracted_Properties">Derived Extracted Property Files</a></h2>
<p>The following properties of the UCD have been separated out, reformatted,
and listed in range format, one property per file, except as noted. These files are provided
purely as a reformatting of existing data, any exceptions are noted in the
table below. All files for derived extracted properties are contained in a
subdirectory called <i>extracted</i>. </p>
<table id="table3">
<tr>
<th>Files</th>
<th valign="top">N/I</th>
<th>Definition and Generation</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedBidiClass</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From UnicodeData.txt, field 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedBinaryProperties</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>The Bidi_Mirrored property from UnicodeData.txt, field 9. See <a href="#Bidi_Note">Bidi Note</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedCombiningClass</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From UnicodeData.txt, field 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedDecompositionType </td>
<td align="center" valign="top">*</td>
<td>From the <tag> in UnicodeData.txt, field 5. For characters with canonical decomposition
mappings (no tag), the value "canonical" is used.
<p>* The value "canonical" is normative; the others are informative.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedEastAsianWidth</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">I</td>
<td>From EastAsianWidth.txt, field 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedGeneralCategory</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From UnicodeData.txt, field 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedJoiningGroup</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From ArabicShaping.txt, field 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedJoiningType</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From ArabicShaping.txt, field 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedLineBreak</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>From LineBreak.txt, field 1.
For more information, see <span>UAX #14:
Line Breaking Properties [<a href="#Line">Line</a>]</span>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedNumericType</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>The property value is based on the contents of UnicodeData.txt, fields 6 through 8:<br>
<div align="center">
<center>
<table id="table4">
<tr>
<th width="50%">property value</th>
<th width="50%">non-empty fields</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">decimal</td>
<td width="50%">6, 7, & 8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">digit</td>
<td width="50%">7 & 8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">numeric</td>
<td width="50%">8</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">DerivedNumericValues</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">N</td>
<td>The numeric value from UnicodeData.txt, field 8</td>
</tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
<p><b><a name="Bidi_Note">Bidi Note</a>:</b> The BidiMirrored property and the BidiMirroring
property are different. The former is a normative property that indicates whether characters are
mirrored in a right-to-left context in the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. The latter is an
informative mapping of a subset of the BidiMirrored characters, to characters that normally have
the corresponding mirrored glyph.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2><a name="Other_UCD_Files">Other UCD Files</a></h2>
<p>The following files in the Unicode Character Database are not used directly for Unicode
properties. For more information about these files, see the referenced technical report(s),
files, or section of Unicode Standard.</p>
<table id="table5">
<tr>
<th>".txt" File</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th align="center">N/I</th>
<th>Summary</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Index</td>
<td>Chapter 17</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>Index to Unicode characters, as printed in the Unicode Standard.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NamesList</td>
<td>Chapter 17</td>
<td align="center">I</td>
<td>This file duplicates some of the material in the UnicodeData file, and adds annotations
used in the character charts.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NormalizationTest</td>
<td>UAX #15</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Test file for conformance to Unicode Normalization Forms.<p>See <span>UAX #15: Unicode
Normalization Forms [<a href="#Norm">Norm</a>]</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>StandardizedVariants</td>
<td>Chapter 16</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>Lists all the standardized variant sequences that have been defined, plus a description of
the desired appearance. <a href="StandardizedVariants.html">StandardizedVariants.html </a>
contains this information, plus a sample glyph showing the desired features.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NamedSequences</td>
<td>UAX#34</td>
<td align="center">N</td>
<td>List the names for all approved named sequences.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NamedSequencesProv</td>
<td>UAX#34</td>
<td align="center">P</td>
<td>Lists the names for all provisional named sequences.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<h2><a name="Properties">Properties</a></h2>
<p>The following table lists the properties in the UCD. They are roughly organized into groups
based on the usage of the property (this grouping is purely for convenience, and has no other
implications). The link on each property leads to description in the file index. The contributory
properties (those of the form Other_XXX) are sets of exceptions used to generate properties in
<a href="DerivedCoreProperties.txt">DerivedCoreProperties.txt</a>. They are
incomplete by themselves and not intended for independent use, for example
an API returning property values would implement the corresponding derived
core property instead.</p>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th width="33%">General</th>
<th width="33%">Decomposition and Normalization</th>
<th width="33%">CJK</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Name">Name</a></td>
<td><a href="#Canonical_Combining_Class">Canonical_Combining_Class</a></td>
<td><a href="#Ideographic">Ideographic</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Name_Alias">Name_Alias</a></td>
<td><a href="#Decomposition_Mapping">Decomposition_Mapping</a></td>
<td><a href="#Unified_Ideograph">Unified_Ideograph</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Block">Block</a></td>
<td><a href="#Composition_Exclusion">Composition_Exclusion</a></td>
<td><a href="#Radical">Radical</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Age">Age</a></td>
<td height="25"><a href="#Full_Composition_Exclusion">Full_Composition_Exclusion</a></td>
<td height="25"><a href="#IDS_Binary_Operator">IDS_Binary_Operator</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#General_Category">General_Category</a></td>
<td><a href="#Decomposition_Type">Decomposition_Type</a></td>
<td><a href="#IDS_Trinary_Operator">IDS_Trinary_Operator</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Script">Script</a></td>
<td><a href="#FC_NFKC_Closure">FC_NFKC_Closure</a></td>
<td><a href="#Unicode_Radical_Stroke">Unicode_Radical_Stroke</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#White_Space">White_Space</a></td>
<td><a href="#NFC_Quick_Check">NFC_Quick_Check</a></td>
<th>Misc</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Alphabetic">Alphabetic</a></td>
<td><a href="#NFKC_Quick_Check">NFKC_Quick_Check</a></td>
<td><a href="#Math">Math</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Hangul_Syllable_Type">Hangul_Syllable_Type</a></td>
<td><a href="#NFD_Quick_Check">NFD_Quick_Check</a></td>
<td><a href="#Quotation_Mark">Quotation_Mark</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Noncharacter_Code_Point">Noncharacter_Code_Point</a></td>
<td><a href="#NFKD_Quick_Check">NFKD_Quick_Check</a></td>
<td><a href="#Dash">Dash</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a></td>
<td><a href="#Expands_On_NFC">Expands_On_NFC</a></td>
<td><a href="#Hyphen">Hyphen</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Deprecated">Deprecated</a></td>
<td><a href="#Expands_On_NFD">Expands_On_NFD</a></td>
<td><a href="#STerm">STerm</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Logical_Order_Exception">Logical_Order_Exception</a></td>
<td><a href="#Expands_On_NFKC">Expands_On_NFKC</a></td>
<td><a href="#Terminal_Punctuation">Terminal_Punctuation</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Variation_Selector">Variation_Selector</a></td>
<td><a href="#Expands_On_NFKD">Expands_On_NFKD</a></td>
<td><a href="#Diacritic">Diacritic</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Case</th>
<td> </td>
<td><a href="#Extender">Extender</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Uppercase">Uppercase</a></td>
<th>Shaping and Rendering</th>
<td><a href="#Grapheme_Base">Grapheme_Base</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Lowercase">Lowercase</a></td>
<td><a href="#Join_Control">Join_Control</a></td>
<td><a href="#Grapheme_Extend">Grapheme_Extend</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Lowercase_Mapping">Lowercase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><a href="#Joining_Group">Joining_Group</a></td>
<td><a href="#Grapheme_Link">Grapheme_Link</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Titlecase_Mapping">Titlecase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><a href="#Joining_Type">Joining_Type</a></td>
<td><a href="#Unicode_1_Name">Unicode_1_Name</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Uppercase_Mapping">Uppercase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><a href="#Line_Break">Line_Break</a></td>
<td><a href="#ISO_Comment">ISO_Comment</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Case_Folding">Case_Folding</a></td>
<td><span><a href="#Grapheme_Cluster_Break">Grapheme_Cluster_Break</a></span></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Simple_Lowercase_Mapping">Simple_Lowercase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><span><a href="#Sentence_Break">Sentence_Break</a></span></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Simple_Titlecase_Mapping">Simple_Titlecase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><span><a href="#Word_Break">Word_Break</a></span></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Simple_Uppercase_Mapping">Simple_Uppercase_Mapping</a></td>
<td><a href="#East_Asian_Width">East_Asian_Width</a></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Simple_Case_Folding">Simple_Case_Folding</a></td>
<th>Bidi</th>
<th><i>Contributory Properties</i></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="removedspan"><a href="#Special_Case_Condition">Special_Case_Condition</a></span></td>
<td><a href="#Bidi_Control">Bidi_Control</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Alphabetic">Other_Alphabetic</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#Soft_Dotted">Soft_Dotted</a></td>
<td><a href="#Bidi_Mirrored">Bidi_Mirrored</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Identifiers</th>
<td><a href="#Bidi_Class">Bidi_Class</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Grapheme_Extend">Other_Grapheme_Extend</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#ID_Continue">ID_Continue</a></td>
<td><a href="#Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph">Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_ID_Continue">Other_ID_Start</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#ID_Start">ID_Start</a></td>
<th>Numeric</th>
<td><span><a href="#Other_ID_Continue">Other_ID_Continue</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#XID_Continue">XID_Continue</a></td>
<td><a href="#Numeric_Value">Numeric_Value</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Lowercase">Other_Lowercase</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="#XID_Start">XID_Start</a></td>
<td><a href="#Numeric_Type">Numeric_Type</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Math">Other_Math</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a href="#Pattern_Syntax">Pattern_Syntax</a></span></td>
<td><a href="#Hex_Digit">Hex_Digit</a></td>
<td><a href="#Other_Uppercase">Other_Uppercase</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span><a href="#Pattern_White_Space">Pattern_White_Space</a></span></td>
<td><a href="#ASCII_Hex_Digit">ASCII_Hex_Digit</a></td>
<td><i><a href="#Jamo_Short_Name">
Jamo_Short_Name</a></i></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<h2><a name="Property_and_Property_Value_Matching">Property and Property Value Matching</a></h2>
<p>Properties and property values may have multiple aliases, such as abbreviated names and longer,
more descriptive names. For example, one can write either Line_Break or LB for the Line Break
property, and either OP or Open_Punctuation for one of its values. When matching property names
and values, it is strongly recommended that all aliases in the UCD be recognized, and that loose
matching should be applied to all property names and property values according to the following:</p>
<p><span class="changedspan">For a general discussion of Unicode character properties, see <span>UTR #23: the Unicode Character Property Model [<a href="#UTR23">UTR23</a>].</span></span></p>
<p><b>Numeric Properties</b></p>
<p>For all numeric properties, and properties such as Unicode_Radical_Stroke that are combinations
of numeric values, use the following loose matching rule:</p>
<p><i>LM1. Apply numeric equivalences</i></p>
<ul>
<li>"01.00" is equivalent to "1".</li>
<li>"1.666667" in the UCD is a repeating fraction, and equivalent to 10/6.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Character Names</b></p>
<p><i>LM2. Ignore case, whitespace, underscore ('_'), and all medial hyphens except the hyphen in
U+1180.</i></p>
<ul>
<li>"zero-width space" is equivalent to "zero width space" or "zerowidthspace"</li>
<li>"character -a" is not equivalent to "character a"</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Others</b></p>
<p>For all property names, property value names, and for property values for Enumerated, Binary,
or Catalog properties, use the following loose matching rule:</p>
<p><i>LM3. Ignore case, whitespace, underscore ('_'), and hyphens.</i></p>
<ul>
<li>"linebreak" is equivalent to "Line_Break" or "Line-break"</li>
</ul>
<p>Otherwise loose matching should not be done for the property values of String properties, as
case distinctions or other distinctions in those values may be significant.</p>
<h2><a name="Property_Invariants">Property Invariants</a></h2>
<p>Values in the UCD are subject to correction as errors are found; however, some characteristics
of the properties and files are considered invariants. Applications may wish to take these
invariants into account when choosing how to implement character properties.
All formally guaranteed invariants of property values are described in <a href="http://www.unicode.org/policies/policies.html">Unicode
Policies</a>. The following lists some additional invariants regarding file organization and more detail on
a few of the
invariants in the Unicode Policies.</p>
<h4>UnicodeData Fields</h4>
<ul>
<li>The number of fields in UnicodeData.txt is fixed.
<ul>
<li>Any additional information about character properties to be added in the future will
appear in separate data files, rather than being added as an additional field or by
subdivision or reinterpretation of existing fields.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The order of the fields is also fixed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Combining Classes</h4>
<ul>
<li>The values of the Canonical_Combining_Class property are invariant.</li>
<li>Combining classes are limited to the values 0 to 255.
<ul>
<li>In practice, there are far fewer than 256 values used; Unicode 3.0 used 53 values, and
Unicode 4.0 used 54 values total. (For details, see DerivedCombiningClasses.txt in the UCD.)
Implementations may take advantage of this fact for compression, since only the ordering of
the non-zero values matters for the Canonical Ordering Algorithm. In principle, it would be
possible for up to 256 values to be used in the future; however, new combining classes are
added very seldom. There are implementation advantages in restricting the number of classes to
128—for example, the ability to use signed bytes without widening to ints in Java. </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>All characters other than those of General Category M* have the combining class 0.
<ul>
<li>Currently, the obverse is also true: all characters other than those of General Category Mn have the value 0.
However, some characters of General Category Me or Mc may be given non-zero values in the
future.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Decimal Digits</h4>
<ul>
<li>In Unicode 4.0 and thereafter, the General_Category value <i>Decimal_Number</i> (Nd), and
the Numeric_Type value <i>Decimal</i> (de) are defined to be co-extensive, that is, the set of
characters having <i>Nd</i> will always be the same as the set of characters having <i>de</i>.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Property_Values">Property Values</a></h2>
<p>The following gives a summary of property values for certain properties. Other property values
are documented in other locations; for example, the line breaking property values are documented
in <span>UAX #14: Line Breaking Properties [<a href="#Line">Line</a>]</span>.</p>
<h3><a name="General_Category_Values">General Category Values</a></h3>
<p><span class="changedspan">The General_Category property of a code point provides for a
most basic classification of that code point. It is usually
determined based on the primary characteristic of the assigned
character for that code point. For example, is it a letter,
a mark, a number, punctuation, or a symbol, and if so, what
type? Many characters have multiple uses, and not all such cases
can be captured entirely by the General_Category value. For
more information, see Chapter 4 in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>].</span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan">The values in the General_Category field in UnicodeData.txt
are abbreviations for the longer descriptions enumerated
in the table below.</span></p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>
<p align="LEFT">Abbr.</th>
<th>
<p align="LEFT">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Lu</td>
<td>Letter, Uppercase</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Ll</td>
<td>Letter, Lowercase</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Lt</td>
<td>Letter, Titlecase</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Lm</td>
<td>Letter, Modifier</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Lo</td>
<td>Letter, Other</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Mn</td>
<td>Mark, Nonspacing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Mc</td>
<td>Mark, Spacing Combining</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Me</td>
<td>Mark, Enclosing</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Nd</td>
<td>Number, Decimal Digit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Nl</td>
<td>Number, Letter</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">No</td>
<td>Number, Other</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Pc</td>
<td>Punctuation, Connector</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Pd</td>
<td>Punctuation, Dash</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Ps</td>
<td>Punctuation, Open</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Pe</td>
<td>Punctuation, Close</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Pi</td>
<td>Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Pf</td>
<td>Punctuation, Final quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Po</td>
<td>Punctuation, Other</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Sm</td>
<td>Symbol, Math</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Sc</td>
<td>Symbol, Currency</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Sk</td>
<td>Symbol, Modifier</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">So</td>
<td>Symbol, Other</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Zs</td>
<td>Separator, Space</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Zl</td>
<td>Separator, Line</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Zp</td>
<td>Separator, Paragraph</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Cc</td>
<td>Other, Control</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Cf</td>
<td>Other, Format</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Cs</td>
<td>Other, Surrogate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Co</td>
<td>Other, Private Use</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER">Cn</td>
<td>Other, Not Assigned (no characters in the file have this property)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
<p><b>Note:</b> The term "L&" is used to stand for Uppercase, Lowercase or Titlecase letters
(Lu, Ll, or Lt) in comments. The LC value in <a href="PropertyValueAliases.txt">
PropertyValueAliases.txt</a> also stands for Uppercase, Lowercase or Titlecase letters.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><span class="changedspan"><b>Note:</b> The Unicode Standard does not assign information to control characters (except
for certain cases). Implementations will generally also assign categories to certain control
characters, notably CR and LF, according to platform conventions. See Section 5.8 "Newline
Guidelines" in [<a href="#U5.0">Unicode</a>] for more information.</span></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Bidi_Class_Values">Bidi Class Values</a></h3>
<p>Please refer to <span>UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm [<a href="#BIDI">BIDI</a>] </span>for
an explanation of the algorithm for Bidirectional Behavior and an explanation of the significance
of these categories.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th valign="TOP" align="LEFT">
<p align="LEFT">Type</th>
<th valign="TOP" align="LEFT">
<p align="LEFT">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">L</td>
<td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">LRE</td>
<td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right Embedding</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">LRO</td>
<td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right Override</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">R</td>
<td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">AL</td>
<td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Arabic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">RLE</td>
<td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Embedding</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">RLO</td>
<td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Override</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">PDF</td>
<td valign="TOP">Pop Directional Format</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">EN</td>
<td valign="TOP">European Number</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">ES</td>
<td valign="TOP">European Number Separator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">ET</td>
<td valign="TOP">European Number Terminator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">AN</td>
<td valign="TOP">Arabic Number</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">CS</td>
<td valign="TOP">Common Number Separator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">NSM</td>
<td valign="TOP">Non-Spacing Mark</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">BN</td>
<td valign="TOP">Boundary Neutral</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">B</td>
<td valign="TOP">Paragraph Separator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">S</td>
<td valign="TOP">Segment Separator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">WS</td>
<td valign="TOP">Whitespace</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="TOP">ON</td>
<td valign="TOP">Other Neutrals</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<h3><a name="Character_Decomposition_Mappings">Character Decomposition Mapping</a></h3>
<p>The tags supplied with certain decomposition mappings generally indicate formatting
information. Where no such tag is given, the mapping is canonical. Conversely, the presence of a
formatting tag also indicates that the mapping is a compatibility mapping and not a canonical
mapping. In the absence of other formatting information in a compatibility mapping, the tag is
used to distinguish it from canonical mappings.</p>
<p>In some instances a canonical mapping or a compatibility mapping may consist of a single
character. For a canonical mapping, this indicates that the character is a canonical equivalent of
another single character. For a compatibility mapping, this indicates that the character is a
compatibility equivalent of another single character. The compatibility formatting tags used are:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Tag</th>
<th>
<p align="LEFT">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><font> </td>
<td>A font variant (e.g. a blackletter form).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><noBreak> </td>
<td>A no-break version of a space or hyphen.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><initial> </td>
<td>An initial presentation form (Arabic).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><medial> </td>
<td>A medial presentation form (Arabic).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><final> </td>
<td>A final presentation form (Arabic).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><isolated> </td>
<td>An isolated presentation form (Arabic).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><circle> </td>
<td>An encircled form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><super> </td>
<td>A superscript form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><sub> </td>
<td>A subscript form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><vertical> </td>
<td>A vertical layout presentation form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><wide> </td>
<td>A wide (or zenkaku) compatibility character.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><narrow> </td>
<td>A narrow (or hankaku) compatibility character.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><small> </td>
<td>A small variant form (CNS compatibility).</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><square> </td>
<td>A CJK squared font variant.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><fraction> </td>
<td>A vulgar fraction form.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="CENTER"><compat> </td>
<td>Otherwise unspecified compatibility character.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><b>Reminder: </b>There is a difference between decomposition and decomposition mapping. The
decomposition mappings are defined in the UnicodeData, while the decomposition (also termed "full
decomposition") is defined in Chapter 3 to use those mappings <i>recursively.</i></p>
<ul>
<li>The canonical decomposition is formed by recursively applying the canonical mappings, then
applying the canonical reordering algorithm.</li>
<li>The compatibility decomposition is formed by recursively applying the canonical <em>and</em>
compatibility mappings, then applying the canonical reordering algorithm.</li>
</ul>
<p><span class="changedspan">The normalization of Hangul conjoining jamos and of Hangul syllables depends on algorithmic
mapping, as specified in Section 3.12, Conjoining Jamo Behavior in [<a href="#Unicode_5.0.0">Unicode</a>].
That algorithm specifies the full decomposition of all precomposed Hangul syllables, but
effectively it is equivalent to the recursive application of pairwise decomposition
mappings, as for all other Unicode characters. Formally, the Decomposition_Mapping (dm)
property value for a Hangul syllable is the pairwise decomposition and not the full decomposition.</span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan">Each character with the <a href="#Hangul_Syllable_Type">Hangul_Syllable_Type</a>
value LVT will have a decomposition mapping consisting of a character with an LV value and a
character with a T value. Thus for U+CE31 the decomposition mapping is <U+CE20, U+11B8>, and <i>
not</i> <U+110E, U+1173, U+11B8>.</span></p>
<h3><a name="Canonical_Combining_Class_Values">Canonical Combining Class Values</a></h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>
<p align="LEFT">Value</th>
<th>
<p align="LEFT">Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">0:</td>
<td>Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">1:</td>
<td>Overlays and interior</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">7:</td>
<td>Nuktas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">8:</td>
<td>Hiragana/Katakana voicing marks</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">9:</td>
<td>Viramas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">10:</td>
<td>Start of fixed position classes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">199:</td>
<td>End of fixed position classes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">200:</td>
<td>Below left attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">202:</td>
<td>Below attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">204:</td>
<td>Below right attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">208:</td>
<td>Left attached (reordrant around single base character)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">210:</td>
<td>Right attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">212:</td>
<td>Above left attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">214:</td>
<td>Above attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">216:</td>
<td>Above right attached</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">218:</td>
<td>Below left</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">220:</td>
<td>Below</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">222:</td>
<td>Below right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">224:</td>
<td>Left (reordrant around single base character)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">226:</td>
<td>Right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">228:</td>
<td>Above left</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">230:</td>
<td>Above</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">232:</td>
<td>Above right</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">233:</td>
<td>Double below</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">234:</td>
<td>Double above</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="RIGHT">240:</td>
<td>Below (iota subscript)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Note: </strong>some of the combining classes in this list do not currently have
members but are specified here for completeness.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Decompositions_and_Normalization">Decompositions and Normalization</a></h3>
<p>Decomposition is specified in Chapter 3. <span>UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms [<a href="#Norm">Norm</a>]
</span>specifies the interaction between decomposition and normalization. That report specifies
how the decompositions defined in <a href="UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> are used to derive
normalized forms of Unicode text.</p>
<p>Note that as of the 2.1.9 update of the Unicode Character Database, the decompositions in the
<a href="UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> file can be used to <i>recursively</i> derive the
full decomposition in canonical order, without the need to separately apply canonical reordering.
However, canonical reordering of combining character sequences <b><i>must</i></b> still be applied
in decomposition when normalizing source text which contains any combining marks.</p>
<p>The QuickCheck property values are as follows:</p>
<div style="spacing:20">
<table>
<tr>
<th>Property</th>
<th>Value</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NF*_QC</td>
<td>No</td>
<td>Characters that cannot ever occur in the respective normalization form. See
<a href="#Decompositions_and_Normalization">Decompositions and Normalization</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NFC_QC, NFKC_QC</td>
<td>Maybe</td>
<td>Characters that may occur in the respective normalization, depending on the context.
See <a href="#Decompositions_and_Normalization">Decompositions and Normalization</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>NF*_QC</td>
<td>Yes</td>
<td>All other characters. This is the default value, and is not listed
for individual characters or ranges in the
file.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p><br>
For more information, see Section 14 in <span>UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms [<a href="#Norm">Norm</a>].</span></p>
<h3><a name="Case_Mappings">Case Mappings</a></h3>
<p>There are a number of complications to case mappings that occur once the repertoire of
characters is expanded beyond ASCII. For more information, see Chapter 3 in Unicode 5.0.</p>
<p>For compatibility with existing parsers, <a href="UnicodeData.txt">UnicodeData.txt</a> only
contains case mappings for characters where they are one-to-one mappings; it also omits
information about context-sensitive case mappings. Information about these special cases can be
found in a separate data file, <a href="SpecialCasing.txt">SpecialCasing.txt</a>.</p>
<h3><a name="Unihan_Tags">Unihan Tags</a></h3>
<p>A large number of properties specific to Han ideographs are contained in
the Unihan Database, where they are called Unihan tags. The <a href="#Unihan.txt">Unihan.txt</a> file is described in <a href="Unihan.html">Unihan.html</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="changedspan"><a name="Validating_Property_Values">Validating Property Values</a></span></h2>
<p><span class="changedspan">Binary properties are expressed in the Unicode files with the
values:</span></p>
<table id="table7" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="2" border="1">
<tr>
<th><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">Value</font></span></span></th>
<th><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">Abbr</font></span></span></th>
<th><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">
Alias</span></font></span></th>
<th><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">
Abbr</span></font></span></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">Yes</font></span></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">Y</font></span></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">
True</span></font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">T</span></font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">No</font></span></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan">
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00" class="changedspan"><font size="2">N</font></span></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">
False</span></font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">F</span></font></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><span class="changedspan">The property values for strings and catalog values as expressed in the UCD files can be validated by using the following
Regular Expression expressions. These expressions use Perl syntax, but may be translated for use
with other regular expression engines. The last column lists the default values for these
properties.</span></p>
<table id="table6" cellSpacing="1" cellPadding="2" border="1">
<caption><span class="changedspan"><b><font size="4">Regular Expressions for Property Values</font></b></span></caption>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><b>Abbr</b></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><b>Name</b></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><b>Regex for Allowable Values</b></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><b>Defaults for
Unlisted Values</b></span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">age</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Age</font></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/([0-9]+\.[0-9]|unassigned)/</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">unassigned</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">nv</font></span></td>
<td rowspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Numeric_Value</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/-?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Field 2</font></span></td>
<td rowspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">NaN</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/-?[0-9]+(\[0-9]+)?/</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Field 3</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">blk</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Block</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="2" colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/[a-zA-Z0-9]+([_\
][a-zA-Z0-9]+)*/</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">No_Block</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">sc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Script</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="1"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Unknown (Zzzz)</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">dm</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Decomposition_Mapping</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="2" colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">
/[\x{0}-\x{10FFFF}]+/</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="10"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">The code point itself,
but # can be used to represent that in certain circumstances.</font></span></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">FC_NFKC</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">FC_NFKC_Closure</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">cf</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Case_Folding</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="4" colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">
/[\x{0}-\x{10FFFF}]+/</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">lc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Lowercase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">tc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Titlecase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">uc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Uppercase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">sfc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Simple_Case_Folding</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="4" colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">
/[\x{0}-\x{10FFFF}]/</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">slc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Simple_Lowercase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">stc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Simple_Titlecase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">suc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Simple_Uppercase_Mapping</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">bmg</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph</font></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/[\x{0}-\x{10FFFF}]?/</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">""</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">isc</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">ISO_Comment</font></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/([A-Z0-9]+(([-\ ]|\ -|-\
)[A-Z0-9]+)*|\<CONTROL\>)?/</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">na1</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Unicode_1_Name</font></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/([A-Z0-9]+(([-\ ]|\ -|-\
)[A-Z0-9]+)*(\ \((CR|FF|LF|NEL)\))?)?/</font></span></td>
<td rowSpan="2">
<p><span class="changedspan"><font size="2"><i>null</i> or <i>empty string</i> is the default
for these property values, however in files the following can be used:<br>
<reserved>, <control>, <private-use>, <surrogate>, <noncharacter></font> </span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><font size="2">The code point can also appear, in a</font></span><font size="2">
form like <private-use-E000>. In some circumstances, such as a compact XML format,
# can be used to stand for the code point to allow for name sharing.</font></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">na</font></span></td>
<td><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">Name</font></span></td>
<td colspan="2"><span class="changedspan"><font size="2">/([A-Z0-9]+(([-\ ]|\ -|-\
)[A-Z0-9]+)*|\<CONTROL\>)?/</font></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<h2><a name="References">References</a></h2>
<table class="noborder" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="BIDI">BIDI</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #9: The Bidirectional Algorithm<br>
Latest version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-18.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/tr9-18.html</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="Breaks">Breaks</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #29: Text Boundaries</a><br>
Latest Version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-13.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-13.html</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder">[<a name="FAQ">FAQ</a>]</td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder">Unicode Frequently Asked Questions<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/faq/">http://www.unicode.org/faq/<br>
</a><i>For answers to common questions on technical issues.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder">[<a name="Glossary">Glossary</a>]</td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder">Unicode Glossary<a href="http://www.unicode.org/glossary/"><br>
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/<br>
</a><i>For explanations of terminology used in this and other documents.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="Line">Line</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #14: Line Breaking Properties<br>
Latest Version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-22.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-22.html</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="Norm">Norm</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms<br>
Latest Version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-29.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-29.html</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="Pattern">Pattern</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #31: Identifier and Pattern Syntax<br>
Latest Version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/tr31-9.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/tr31-9.html</a> </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder">[<a name="Reports">Reports</a>]</td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder">Unicode Technical Reports<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/<br>
</a><i>For information on the status and development process for technical reports, and for a
list of technical reports.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder">[<a name="Scripts">Scripts</a>]</td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder">UAX #24 Script Names<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/tr24-11.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/tr24-11.html</a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="U5.0">U5.0</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>The Unicode Standard Version 5.0<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/">
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span class="changedspan"><span>[<a name="U5.1.0">U5.1.0</a>]</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span class="changedspan"><span>The Unicode Standard Version 5.1.0<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/">
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/</a></span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span class="changedspan"><span>[<a name="UTR23">UTR23</a>]</span></span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span class="changedspan"><span>The Unicode Character Property Model<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr23/">
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr23/</a></span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder">[<a name="Versions">Versions</a>]</td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder">Versions of the Unicode Standard<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/">http://www.unicode.org/versions/<br>
</a><i>For details on the precise contents of each version of the Unicode Standard, and how to
cite them.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="1" class="noborder"><span>[<a name="Width">Width</a>]</span></td>
<td valign="top" class="noborder"><span>UAX #11: East Asian Width<br>
Latest Version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/</a><br>
5.1.0 version:<br>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/tr11-16.html">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/tr11-16.html</a></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2><br>
<a name="Modification_History">Modification History</a></h2>
<p>This section provides a summary of the changes between update versions of the Unicode Standard.
The modifications prior to Unicode 4.0 only listed changes in UnicodeData.txt. From 4.0 onward,
the consolidated modifications include the changes in other files.</p>
<h3>
<span class="changedspan">
<a name="Unicode_5.1.0" href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-5.1.0.html">Unicode 5.1.0</a></span></h3>
<p><span class="changedspan"><b>This document:</b></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">Added clarification regarding the Decomposition_Mapping for Hangul syllables.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Added specific documentation about First/Last convention for ranges in UnicodeData.txt.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Improved introduction to General Category Values.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Added reference to UTR #23 and updated other references.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Applied correction for erratum about derivation of Default_Ignorable_Code_Point.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Added the section on <a href="#Validating_Property_Values">Validating
Property Values</a>, with string property validation, default values, and boolean values.</span></li>
<li><span class="changedspan">Removed Special_Case_Condition. (The property values were never
defined clearly enough to be applied.)</span></li>
<li><b><span class="changedspan">Draft 5:</span></b><ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">Added clarifications for defaulted string property values, at the end
of <a href="#UCD_File_Format">UCD File Format</a> and in descriptions of:</span><pre><span class="changedspan">cf ; Case_Folding (when not listed)
dm ; Decomposition_Mapping
FC_NFKC ; FC_NFKC_Closure (when not listed)
lc ; Lowercase_Mapping
sfc ; Simple_Case_Folding
tc ; Titlecase_Mapping
uc ; Uppercase_Mapping</span></pre>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span class="changedspan"><b>Common file changes:</b></span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan">TBD</span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan"><b>Changes in specific files:</b></span></p>
<p><span class="changedspan">TBD</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">UnicodeData.txt
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">The 5 Arabic characters that surround numeral sequences (U+0600..U+0603,
U+06DD) were changed
from Bidirectional_Class=AL to AN. This has the effect of putting the
surrounding sign and the numeral sequence in the same directional run,
making them easier to implement correctly.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">DerivedNumericValues.txt
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="changedspan">A third field was added to this file, expressing the extracted
numeric value as a whole integer, if possible, or as a rational
fraction, e.g. 1/6.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a name="Unicode_5.0.0" href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-5.0.0.html">Unicode 5.0.0</a></h3>
<p><b>This document:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Added new properties.</li>
<li>Updated property invariants for combining classes.</li>
<li>Reorganized order of sections in the document for clarity.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Common file changes:</b></p>
<p>In many data files an explicit default property assignment range
was added (in a machine-readable comment line), to assist implementations in
assigning values for code points not otherwise listed in the data file.</p>
<p><b>Changes in specific files:</b></p>
<p>In some of the following entries, references are made to a Public Review
Issue (PRI). See <a href="http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html">http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html</a>
for more information about those cases.</p>
<p>Appropriate data files were updated to include the 1369 new
characters added in Unicode 5.0.</p>
<p>Two new data files, NameAliases.txt and NamedSequencesProv.txt, were
added to the UCD.</p>
<ul>
<li>UnicodeData.txt
<p>Note that except for the changes involving U+0294 LATIN LETTER
GLOTTAL STOP, changes made to General_Category and
Bidirectional_Class impacted primarily a handful of archaic letters.</p>
<ul>
<li>U+10341 GOTHIC LETTER NINETY was changed from gc=Lo to gc=Nl. This
change also impacted a numeric field, for consistency.</li>
<li>U+103D0 OLD PERSIAN WORD DIVIDER was changed from gc=So to gc=Po,
and from bc=ON to bc=L.</li>
<li>U+103D1..U+103D5 were changed from bc=ON to bc=L.</li>
<li>U+23B4..U+23B6 were changed from various punctuation assignments to
gc=So.</li>
<li>U+2132 TURNED CAPITAL F was changed from gc=So to gc=Lu, and from
bc=ON to bc=L.</li>
<li>U+2183 ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED was changed from gc=Nl to gc=Lu.</li>
<li>U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP was changed from gc=Ll to gc=Lo.</li>
<li>Casing assignments were added for several characters for new case pairs.</li>
<li>Case mappings were removed for U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP and
updated for U+0241 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER GLOTTAL STOP.</li>
<li>30 characters were changed to Bidi_Mirrored=Y. These consisted of
compatibility paired punctuation and some quotation marks. See PRI #80
and PRI #91.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Unihan.txt
<ul><li>4 new provisional properties were added, and extensive corrections and
additions to other properties were made. See Unihan.html for the
modification history.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>ArabicShaping.txt
<ul><li>New joining classes were added for N'Ko.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>BidiMirroring.txt
<ul><li>30 entries were added, to give glyph mappings for characters changed
to Bidi_Mirrored=Y. See PRI #80 and PRI #91.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>Blocks.txt
<ul><li>Added 9 new block definitions.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>DerivedCoreProperties.txt
<ul><li>The deprecated derived property, Grapheme_Link, was added to this file.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>LineBreak.txt
<ul><li>There were numerous updates to linebreaking properties. See the
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-19.html#Modifications">
Modification History in UAX #14</a> for details. Also see PRI #88.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>NamedSequences.txt
<ul><li>6 named sequences for Gurmukhi and one for Latin were removed.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>PropertyValueAliases.txt
<ul><li>Appropriate aliases were added for new Block and Script values.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>PropList.txt
<ul>
<li>The Grapheme_Link property was deprecated and moved to
DerivedCoreProperties.txt as derivable. U+034F COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER
was removed from the derivation.</li>
<li>U+1D6A4 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL DOTLESS I and U+1D6A5 MATHEMATICAL
ITALIC SMALL DOTLESS J were added to Other_Math.</li>
<li>U+1039F UGARITIC WORD DIVIDER and U+103D0 OLD PERSIAN WORD DIVIDER
were added to Terminal_Punctuation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Scripts.txt
<ul>
<li>5 new Script values were added: Balinese, Cuneiform, Phoenician,
Phags-pa, and Nko.</li>
<li>A new Script value Unknown was added and made the default for
unassigned characters. See PRI #87.</li>
<li>3 Mongolian punctuation characters used by Phags-pa were changed
to Script=Common.</li>
<li>U+1DBF MODIFIER LETTER SMALL THETA was changed from Script=Latin to
Script=Greek.</li>
<li>U+2132 TURNED CAPITAL F was changed from Script=Common to Script=Latin.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>StandardizedVariants.txt
<ul><li>6 standardized variation sequences were added for Phags-pa.</li></ul>
</li>
<li>WordBreakProperty.txt
<ul>
<li>U+2132 TURNED CAPITAL F was added to ALetter.
<li>220 characters from the Myanmar, Khmer, Tai Le, and New Tai Lue
scripts were removed from ALetter, because those scripts do not
cusomarily use spaces between words and require special handling.
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-4.1.0.html">Unicode 4.1.0</a></h3>
<p><b>This document:</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span>Added description of new directory and release structure, including the Auxiliary
files.</span></li>
<li><span>Removed exception for field numbering in LineBreak and EastAsianWidth.</span></li>
<li><span>Added new properties, and changed some of the documentation of the identifier
properties.</span></li>
<li><span>Removed the material that is now to be in Unihan.html</span></li>
<li><span>Removed the listing of default BIDI properties, referring now to
<a href="extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt">extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt</a></span></li>
<li>Replaced direct links to UAXes with links to references section<span>.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Common file changes:</b></p>
<p>
All remaining files not corrected for Unicode 4.0.1 have
had their headers updated to explicitly point to
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html">Terms of Use</a>. The headers have also been
synchronized somewhat to share a more common format for
file version, date, and pointers to documentation.
The major exception is UnicodeData.txt, which for legacy
reasons, has no header.
</p><p>
<b>Changes in specific files:</b>
</p><p>
In some of the following, reference is made to a Public
Review Issue (PRI). See
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html">http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html</a> for more information about those cases.
</p><p>
Appropriate data files were updated to include the 1273
new characters added in Unicode 4.1.</p>
<p>
The description of the Unihan properties was separated out from UCD.html, and
extensively revised, and now appears in Unihan.html.</p>
<p>
<span>An auxiliary directory has been added. In 4.1.0 it contains properties associated with
UAX #29: Text Boundaries [<a href="#Breaks">Breaks</a>].</span></p>
<ul><li><b>UnicodeData.txt</b>
<ul><li>
The Bidi_Class of U+202F was changed from bc=WS to bc=CS.
See PRI #45.
</li><li>
The Bidi_Class of U+FF0F was changed from bc=ES to bc=CS.
See PRI #44.
</li><li>
The Bidi_Class of U+2212 MINUS SIGN and 9 other characters
similar to either a minus sign or a plus sign were changed
to bc=ES. See PRI #57.
</li><li>
U+30FB KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT and U+FF65 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT
were changed from gc=Pc to gc=Po. See PRI #55.
</li><li>
Case mappings were added for Georgian capitals (Asomtavruli)
to map them to the newly added Nuskhuri alphabet.
</li><li>
U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU was changed from gc=Lo to gc=Lm.
</li><li>
9 Ethiopic digits were changed from gc=Nd to gc=No.
</li><li>
The Numeric_Type of U+1034A GOTHIC LETTER NINE HUNDRED was
changed from nt=None to nt=Nu, and it was given a Numeric_Value
of 900.
</li><li>
Uppercase and titlecase mappings were added for U+019A LATIN
SMALL LETTER L WITH BAR and U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
to map them to newly added capital letters.
</li></ul>
<li><b>Unihan.txt</b>
<ul><li>
Extensive additions and corrections were made for this data file.
See Unihan.html for the modification history.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>ArabicShaping.txt</b>
<ul><li>
The Joining_Group of U+06C2 ARABIC LETTER HEH GOAL WITH HAMZA ABOVE
was changed to jg=Heh_Goal.
</li></ul>
<li><b>BidiMirroring.txt</b>
<ul><li>
The Bidi_Mirroring_Glyph value for U+2A2D was corrected.
</li></ul>
<li><b>Blocks.txt</b>
<ul><li>
Added 20 new block definitions.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>LineBreak.txt</b>
<ul><li>
The Line_Break property of all conjoining jamos was updated from
lb=ID to make use of Hangul-specific Line_Break property values,
aligned with the Hangul_Syllable_Type property.
</li><li>
Many other corrections were made to the Line_Break property of
characters, particularly for punctuation marks specific to
Runic, Mongolian, Tibetan and various Indic scripts. For details
on these changes, see UAX #14.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>PropertyAliases.txt</b>
<ul><li>
Properties and aliases were added for UAX #29, Text Boundaries:
Grapheme_Cluster_Break, Word_Break, and Sentence_Break.
</li><li>
Properties and aliases were added for: Other_ID_Continue,
Pattern_White_Space, and Pattern_Syntax.
</li><li>
An alias was added for White_Space: "space", for compatibility
with POSIX.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>PropertyValueAliases.txt</b>
<ul><li>
Property value aliases were added for all new properties, and
for new values added to existing catalog properties (blocks
and scripts).
</li><li>
Property value aliases were added for compatibility with POSIX:
"cntrl", "digit", and "punct"
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>PropList.txt</b>
<ul><li>
3 new properties were added: Other_ID_Continue, Pattern_White_Space,
and Pattern_Syntax.
</li><li>
U+30A0 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN was given the Dash property.
</li><li>
U+A015 YI SYLLABLE WU was given the Extender property.
</li><li>
Golden number runes (U+16EE..U+16F0), Roman numerals (U+2160..U+2183),
and U+1034A GOTHIC LETTER NINE HUNDRED were removed from Other_Alphabetic.
</li><li>
Circled Latin letters (U+24B6..U+24E9) were added to Other_Alphabetic.
These changes to Other_Alphabetic were to better align Alphabetic
and casing properties. The derived property Alphabetic is now a
superset of the derived properties Lowercase and Uppercase,
for compatibility with POSIX-style character classes.
</li><li>
3 musical symbol combining flags (U+1D170..U+1D172) were added
to Other_Grapheme_Extend to fix an inconsistency in the data.
</li><li>
U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE was removed from Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>Scripts.txt</b>
<ul><li>
8 new Script values were added: Buginese, Coptic, New_Tai_Lue,
Glagolitic, Tifinagh, Syloti_Nagri, Old_Persian, and Kharoshthi.
</li><li>
The Script value Katakana_Or_Hiragana (Hrkt) was removed.
</li><li>
The Script for the 14 Coptic letters in the Greek and Coptic block
were updated to sc=Copt.
</li><li>
10 characters (punctuation and extenders) shared by Katakana and
Hiragana were changed from sc=Hrkt to sc=Zyyy.
</li></ul></li>
<li><b>SpecialCasing.txt</b>
<ul><li>
The case mapping contexts defined in this file were updated.
</li><li>
A number of clarifying changes were made to comments in the header
of this data file.
</li></ul>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-4.0.1.html">Unicode 4.0.1</a></h3>
<p><b>This document:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Added two new properties</li>
<li>Added the property types Catalog and Miscellaneous</li>
<li>Described loose matching of property names and values</li>
<li>Added to file format</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Common file changes:</b></p>
<p>Some property values have different casing (upper vs. lower) for consistency between the data
files and the PropertyValueAlias file. There are some additional changes in comments:</p>
<ul>
<li>Nearly all files changed headers to explicitly point to <i>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html">Terms of Use</a></i></li>
<li>Names for code points without names now have a more uniform style, such as <i>
<reserved-1234></i></li>
<li>Where characters with a default value are not listed, that information is indicated in the
total code point counts</li>
<li>The full property name and property value name (for enumerated properties) is usually
supplied in a comment</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Changes in specific files:</b></p>
<p>In some of the following, reference is made to a Public Review Issue (PRI). See
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html">
http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html</a> for more information about those cases.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>UnicodeData.txt</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Changed general category of Zero Width Space (U+200B) from Zs to Cf. For background
information, see PRI #21.</li>
<li>Bidi Conformance was made much clearer and more rigorous, also resulting in a number of
property changes:<br>
<ul>
<li>Several Bidi fixes impact number and date formatting with the following characters: +,
-, /</li>
<li>Braille symbols were changed to being strong Left-to-right, to reflect usage.</li>
<li>A review of BN and Default Ignorable code points resulted in a number of changes: for
details, see PRI #28.</li>
<li>Some other bidi tweaks were made for consistency.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>While the properties of the Join_Controls have not changed, their role in combining
characters sequences has. For more information, see
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.1/">
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.1/</a>.</li>
<li>Removed an extraneous space at the end of the name field for two characters.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Unihan.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>A major update of the Unihan data file, to bring it up-to-date for Unicode 4.0. (It was
not released in Version 4.0.0, because of the time required to complete and check corrections
to the data file.) This update rolls in fixes for nearly all known errors in the prior version
of the file and adds a very large amount of other informative data. For details, see the
header of that file.</li>
<li>Added three new tags: kHanyuPinlu, kGSR, and kIRG_USource.</li>
<li>Completed data for kCihaiT, kCowles, kGradeLevel, and kLau</li>
<li>The kMandarin field has been corrected and its order restored to a "frequency" order</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>ArabicShaping.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Moved one entry into code point order.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Blocks.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Corrected name of the Cyrillic Supplement block.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>DerivedCoreProperties.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>ZWNJ/ZWJ (U+200C..U+200D) now have the <a href="#Grapheme_Extend">Grapheme_Extend</a>
property.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>DerivedNormalizationProps.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>While not actually changing the particular values associated with the Quick Check
properties for characters, a revision was made in how the Quick Check properties are expressed
in the file, to bring it more into line with the model for other properties. This resulted in
a significant change in the format of the data file and the explicit separation of Yes, No,
and Maybe values. In addition, the actual aliases for the property changed in the data file.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Index.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Updated to correspond to the character index published as part of the
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/">Unicode Standard, Version 4.0</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>LineBreak.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Many changes for consistency and to better match best practice in existing line break
implementations; for details, see <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/">UAX #14: Line
Breaking Properties</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>PropertyAliases.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Addition of some property categories, with the order of property aliases adjusted for
clarity. </li>
<li>Addition of alias entries for the new <a href="#STerm">STerm</a> and
<a href="#Variation_Selector">Variation_Selector</a> properties.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>PropertyValueAliases.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Addition of specific values and aliases for age. </li>
<li>Addition of second alias for the Cyrillic Supplement block. </li>
<li>Addition of second alias for the Inseparable value of the Line Break property. </li>
<li>Revision of the all the Normalization Quick Check properties, to replace the
pseudo-property "qc" with actual specific properties with explicit enumerated value aliases.
</li>
<li>Addition of Katakana_Or_Hiragana script alias.</li>
<li>Fixed None (so it is used uniformly in first aliases instead of being the only n/a)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>PropList.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Major revision of the <a href="#Other_Math">Other_Math</a> property to align the derived
<a href="#Math">Math</a> property with the explanation given in UTR #25. </li>
<li>Extension of the list of characters with the <a href="#Soft_Dotted">Soft_Dotted</a>
property. </li>
<li>Significant update of the list of characters with the Terminal_Punctuation property. </li>
<li>Addition of a new <a href="#STerm">STerm</a> property, to simplify the description used in
UAX #29. </li>
<li>Addition of the <a href="#Variation_Selector">Variation_Selector</a> property. </li>
<li>Reassignment of the list of characters with the
<a href="#Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point">Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point</a> property,
to enable simpler derivation. </li>
<li>Addition of ZWNJ/ZWJ (200C..200D) to <a href="#Other_Grapheme_Extend">
Other_Grapheme_Extend</a>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Scripts.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Significant revision of script assignments, to assign specific script values to many
characters that previously had the Common script value. </li>
<li>Addition of the Katakana_Or_Hiragana script value, with list of characters for it.</li>
<li>The Common values are now listed, for comparison.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>SpecialCasing.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Correction of typo in comments.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-4.0.0.html">Unicode 4.0</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><b>UnicodeData.txt</b>
<ul>
<li>Decimal Digits
<ul>
<li>Numeric_Type=decimal digit now aligned with General_Category=Nd</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Modifier letters*
<ul>
<li>The general category of 02B9..02BA, 02C6..02CF changed to general category Lm.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Other Files</b>
<ul>
<li>New Properties and Values
<ul>
<li>Hangul_Syllable_Type, Unicode_Radical_Stroke</li>
<li>CJK numeric values added.</li>
<li>PropertyValueAliases adds block names</li>
<li>UCD fallback props more precisely defined, for code points not explicitly in data files</li>
<li>Added script value for Braille</li>
<li>New line breaking properties: NL, WJ</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Khmer
<ul>
<li>Two Khmer characters are deprecated; four others strongly discouraged.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Special Casing
<ul>
<li>Fixed for Turkish, Lithuanian</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Default Ignorables
<ul>
<li>Hangul Filler characters</li>
<li>Soft-Hyphen, CGJ, ZWS</li>
<li>Arabic End of Ayah and Syriac Abbreviation Mark no longer DI (their shaping classes are
also fixed.)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Grapheme_Extend
<ul>
<li>Removes halfwidth katakana marks, most Mc (except as needed for canonical equivalence)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Stabilized">Stabilized</a> Properties
<ul>
<li>The <a href="#Hyphen">Hyphen</a> property is now stabilized.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_3_2_0">Unicode 3.2</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.2.0 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Addition of 1016 new entries, to cover new characters encoded in Unicode 3.2.</li>
<li>Updated ISO 6429 names for control functions to match the currently published version of
that standard.</li>
<li>Changed general category for Mongolian free variation selectors (U+180B..U+180D) from Cf
to Mn.</li>
<li>Changed general category for U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA (aytham) from Mc to Lo.</li>
<li>Changed general category for U+06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH from Me to Cf.</li>
<li>Changed general category for U+17D7 KHMER SIGN LEK TOO from Po to Lm.</li>
<li>Changed general category for U+17DC KHMER SIGN AVAKRAHASANYA from Po to Lo.</li>
<li>Changed canonical decomposition for U+F951 from 96FB to 964B (see <i>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum3.html">Corrigendum #3: U+F951
Normalization</a></i>).</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_3_1_1">Unicode 3.1.1</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.1.1 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Modification of ISO 10646 annotation regarding Greek tonos, affecting entries for U+0301 and
U+030D.</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_3_1_0">Unicode 3.1</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.1.0 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Addition of 2237 new entries, to cover new characters and new ranges of unified Han
characters encoded in Unicode 3.1.</li>
<li>Changed General Category value of 16EE..16F0 (Runic golden numbers) from No to Nl.</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_3_0_1">Unicode 3.0.1</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.0.1 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added 5- and 6-digit representation of code points past U+FFFF.</li>
<li>Added Private Use range definitions for Planes 15 and 16.</li>
<li>Minor additions for the 10646 comment field.</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_3_0_0">Unicode 3.0.0</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.0.0 of UnicodeData.txt include many new characters and a
number of property changes. These are summarized in Appendix D of <em>The Unicode Standard,
Version 3.0.</em></p>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_2_1_9">Unicode 2.1.9</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.9 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Corrected combining class for U+05AE HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR.</li>
<li>Corrected combining class for U+20E1 COMBINING LEFT RIGHT ARROW ABOVE</li>
<li>Corrected combining class for U+0F35 and U+0F37 to 220.</li>
<li>Corrected combining class for U+0F71 to 129.</li>
<li>Added a decomposition for U+0F0C TIBETAN MARK DELIMITER TSHEG BSTAR.</li>
<li>Added decompositions for several Greek symbol letters: U+03D0..U+03D2, U+03D5, U+03D6,
U+03F0..U+03F2.</li>
<li>Removed decompositions from the conjoining jamo block: U+1100..U+11F8.</li>
<li>Changes to decomposition mappings for some Tibetan vowels for consistency in normalization.
(U+0F71, U+0F73, U+0F77, U+0F79, U+0F81)</li>
<li>Updated the decomposition mappings for several Vietnamese characters with two diacritics
(U+1EAC, U+1EAD, U+1EB6, U+1EB7, U+1EC6, U+1EC7, U+1ED8, U+1ED9), so that the recursive
decomposition can be generated directly in canonically reordered form (not a normative change).</li>
<li>Updated the decomposition mappings for several Arabic compatibility characters involving
shadda (U+FC5E..U+FC62, U+FCF2..U+FCF4), and two Latin characters (U+1E1C, U+1E1D), so that the
decompositions are generated directly in canonically reordered form (not a normative change).</li>
<li>Changed BIDI category for: U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, U+2007 FIGURE SPACE, U+2028 LINE
SEPARATOR.</li>
<li>Changed BIDI category for extenders of General Category Lm: U+3005, U+3021..U+3035, U+FF9E,
U+FF9F.</li>
<li>Changed General Category and BIDI category for the Greek numeral signs: U+0374, U+0375.</li>
<li>Corrected General Category for U+FFE8 HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL.</li>
<li>Added Unicode 1.0 names for many Tibetan characters (informative).</li>
</ul>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_2_1_8">Unicode 2.1.8</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.8 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added combining class 240 for U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI so that decompositions
involving iota subscript are derivable directly in canonically reordered form; this also has a
bearing on simplification of casing of polytonic Greek.</li>
<li>Changes in decompositions related to Greek tonos. These result from the clarification that
monotonic Greek "tonos" should be equated with U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE, rather than with U+030D
COMBINING VERTICAL LINE ABOVE. (All Greek characters in the Greek block involving "tonos"; some
Greek characters in the polytonic Greek in the 1FXX block.)</li>
<li>Changed decompositions involving dialytika tonos. (U+0390, U+03B0)</li>
<li>Changed ternary decompositions to binary. (U+0CCB, U+FB2C, U+FB2D) These changes simplify
normalization.</li>
<li>Removed canonical decomposition for Latin Candrabindu. (U+0310)</li>
<li>Corrected error in canonical decomposition for U+1FF4.</li>
<li>Added compatibility decompositions to clarify collation tables. (U+2100, U+2101, U+2105,
U+2106, U+1E9A)</li>
<li>A series of general category changes to assist the convergence of the Unicode definition of
identifier with ISO TR 10176:
<ul>
<li>So > Lo: U+0950, U+0AD0, U+0F00, U+0F88..U+0F8B</li>
<li>Po > Lo: U+0E2F, U+0EAF, U+3006</li>
<li>Lm > Sk: U+309B, U+309C</li>
<li>Po > Pc: U+30FB, U+FF65</li>
<li>Ps/Pe > Mn: U+0F3E, U+0F3F</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A series of bidi property changes for consistency.
<ul>
<li>L > ET: U+09F2, U+09F3</li>
<li>ON > L: U+3007</li>
<li>L > ON: U+0F3A..U+0F3D, U+037E, U+0387</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Add case mapping: U+01A6 <-> U+0280</li>
<li>Updated symmetric swapping value for guillemets: U+00AB, U+00BB, U+2039, U+203A.</li>
<li>Changes to combining class values. Most Indic fixed position class non-spacing marks were
changed to combining class 0. This fixes some inconsistencies in how canonical reordering would
apply to Indic scripts, including Tibetan. Indic interacting top/bottom fixed position classes
were merged into single (non-zero) classes as part of this change. Tibetan subjoined consonants
are changed from combining class 6 to combining class 0. Thai pinthu (U+0E3A) moved to combining
class 9. Moved two Devanagari stress marks into generic above and below combining classes
(U+0951, U+0952).</li>
<li>Corrected placement of semicolon near symmetric swapping field. (U+FA0E, etc., scattered
positions to U+FA29)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.7</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly released.</i></p>
<h3>Version 2.1.6</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly released.</i></p>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_2_1_5">Unicode 2.1.5</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.5 of UnicodeData.txt include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Changed decomposition for U+FF9E and U+FF9F so that correct collation weighting will
automatically result from the canonical equivalences.</li>
<li>Removed canonical decompositions for U+04D4, U+04D5, U+04D8, U+04D9, U+04E0, U+04E1, U+04E8,
U+04E9 (the implication being that no canonical equivalence is claimed between these 8
characters and similar Latin letters), and updated 4 canonical decompositions for U+04DB,
U+04DC, U+04EA, U+04EB to reflect the implied difference in the base character.</li>
<li>Added Pi, and Pf categories and assigned the relevant quotation marks to those categories,
based on the Unicode Technical Corrigendum on Quotation Characters.</li>
<li>Updating of many bidi properties, following the advice of the ad hoc committee on bidi, and
to make the bidi properties of compatibility characters more consistent.</li>
<li>Changed category of several Tibetan characters: U+0F3E, U+0F3F, U+0F88..U+0F8B to make them
non-combining, reflecting the combined opinion of Tibetan experts.</li>
<li>Added case mapping for U+03F2.</li>
<li>Corrected case mapping for U+0275.</li>
<li>Added titlecase mappings for U+03D0, U+03D1, U+03D5, U+03D6, U+03F0.. U+03F2.</li>
<li>Corrected compatibility label for U+2121.</li>
<li>Add specific entries for all the CJK compatibility ideographs, U+F900..U+FA2D, so the
canonical decomposition for each (the URO character it is equivalent to) can be carried in the
database.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.4</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly released.</i></p>
<h3>Version 2.1.3</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly released.</i></p>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_2_1_2">Unicode 2.1.2</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made in updating UnicodeData.txt to Version 2.1.2 for the Unicode Standard,
Version 2.1 (from Version 2.0) include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added two characters (U+20AC and U+FFFC).</li>
<li>Amended bidi properties for U+0026, U+002E, U+0040, U+2007.</li>
<li>Corrected case mappings for U+018E, U+019F, U+01DD, U+0258, U+0275, U+03C2, U+1E9B.</li>
<li>Changed combining order class for U+0F71.</li>
<li>Corrected canonical decompositions for U+0F73, U+1FBE.</li>
<li>Changed decomposition for U+FB1F from compatibility to canonical.</li>
<li>Added compatibility decompositions for U+FBE8, U+FBE9, U+FBF9..U+FBFB.</li>
<li>Corrected compatibility decompositions for U+2469, U+246A, U+3358.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.1</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly released.</i></p>
<h3>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/components-pre4.html#Unicode_2_0_0">Unicode 2.0.0</a></h3>
<p>The modifications made in updating UnicodeData.txt for the Unicode Standard, Version 2.0
include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed decompositions with TONOS to use correct NSM: 030D.</li>
<li>Removed old Hangul Syllables; mapping to new characters are in a separate table.</li>
<li>Marked compatibility decompositions with additional tags.</li>
<li>Changed old tag names for clarity.</li>
<li>Revision of decompositions to use first-level decomposition, instead of maximal
decomposition.</li>
<li>Correction of all known errors in decompositions from earlier versions.</li>
<li>Added control code names (as old Unicode names).</li>
<li>Added Hangul Jamo decompositions.</li>
<li>Added Number category to match properties list in book.</li>
<li>Fixed categories of Koranic Arabic marks.</li>
<li>Fixed categories of precomposed characters to match decomposition where possible.</li>
<li>Added Hebrew cantillation marks and the Tibetan script.</li>
<li>Added place holders for ranges such as CJK Ideographic Area and the Private Use Area.</li>
<li>Added categories Me, Sk, Pc, Nl, Cs, Cf, and rectified a number of mistakes in the database.</li>
</ul>
<h2><i><a name="UCD_Terms">UCD Terms of Use</a></i></h2>
<p>For terms of use, see <i>
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html">http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html</a>.</i></p>
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