[Python-Dev] Unicode 5.1.0

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Fri Aug 22 18:52:18 CEST 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:59:46AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> That's up to us. I don't know what the reason was for keeping the
> 3.2.0 database around -- does anyone here recall ever using it? For
> what?

RFC 3491, one of the internationalized domain name RFCs, explicitly
requires Unicode 3.2.0, so Lib/stringprep.py needs to use the old
database and we have to keep 3.2.0 available.  Maybe no specs depend
on 4.1.0, so it could simply be replaced by 5.1.0.

--amk


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