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[Bug localedata/18568] Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
- From: "maiku.fabian at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:31:26 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/18568] Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
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- References: <bug-18568-716 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18568
--- Comment #3 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Marko Myllynen from comment #1)
> The following Unicode Blog posting provides some comments about required
> implementation changes, however I haven't investigated how relevant these
> are from glibc perspective.
I think for glibc, this has little impact.
> http://blog.unicode.org/2015/03/unicode-80-beta-review.html
>
> Unicode 8.0.0 comprises several changes which require careful migration in
> implementations, including the conversion of Cherokee to a bicameral script,
That means Cherokee has upper and lower case now, lots of characters
get added to "toupper", "tolower", "totitle" in the "i18n" file.
> a different encoding model for New Tai Lue, and additional character
> repertoire.
Many New Tai Lue characters which were combining characters before are
not combining characters anymore.
> Implementers need to change code and check assumptions regarding
> case mappings New Tai Lue syllables, Han character ranges, and confusables.
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