On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:34:14PM +0100, MRAB wrote:
On 2015-06-18 19:33, Larry Hastings wrote:
On 06/18/2015 11:27 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
Unicode 8.0 was just released. Can we have unicodedata updated to match in 3.5?
What does this entail? Data changes, code changes, both?
It looks like just data changes.
At the very least, there is a change to the casefolding algorithm. Cherokee was classified as unicameral but is now considered bicameral (two cases, like English). Unusually, case-folding Cherokee maps to uppercase rather than lowercase. The full set of changes is listed here: http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ Apart from the addition of 7716 characters and changes to str.casefold(), I don't think any of the changes will make a big difference to Python's implementation. But it would be good to support Unicode 8 (to the degree that Python actually does support Unicode, rather than just that character set part of it).
There are additional codepoints and a renamed property (which the standard library doesn't support anyway).
Which one are you referring to, Indic_Matra_Category renamed to Indic_Positional_Category? -- Steve