[Python-Dev] Unicode 5.1.0 (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Mon Aug 25 20:15:36 CEST 2008

On 2008-08-25 19:34, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/ "Unicode 5.1.0 contains over 100,000 characters, and provides significant additions and improvements..." to existing features, including new files and upgrades to existing files. Sounds close to adding features ;-) I agree. This seriously feels like new, potentially high risk code to be adding this late in the game. The BDFL can always override, but unless someone is really convincing that this is low risk high benefit, I'd vote no for 2.6/3.0.

The above quote from the Unicode site is misleading in this context.

Guido's request was just for updating the Unicode database with the data from 5.1 - without adding new support for properties or changing the interfaces.

See this page for a list of changes to the Unicode database:

http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html

The main file used for the unicodedata module is called "UnicodeData.txt".

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