Re: Update 3.1

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 20:32:47 EST


John,

And the first comments are in! From someone who did not
read the instructions:

> - DO test the data in these files with your products, and report any errors
> to errata@unicode.org, with the title "UCD 3.1 Bug". Any messages that are
> sent to other mailing lists, or that do not have that precise title, will
> NOT be collected.

Or the notes:

> NOTES:
>
> - CaseFolding ... does not yet include case foldings for
> Deseret.

Funny how that is.

> From unicode@unicode.org Fri Dec 15 17:14 PST 2000
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> Subject: Update 3.1
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> The CaseFolding-3.d3.beta.txt file has not been updated for Plane 1 characters.
>
> In particular, there is no information for cased characters in the
> Desertet and Math Alpha Symbols blocks.

The Math Alphanumerics are deliberately not given default case
mappings in UnicodeData.txt. Cf. the status of U+2112/U+2113
in the Letterlike Symbols.

Therefore, they also do not require case foldings.

--Ken

> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
> --Douglas Hofstadter



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