[Bug 5948] Reference to Unicode Database

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5948





--- Comment #2 from Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>  2008-09-29 05:57:15 ---
Hello Michael,

we discussed your comment
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5948#c1
at
http://www.w3.org/2008/09/17-core-minutes#item05
We are now contacting the Unicode Technical Committee asking for stability of
block names. See the thread at 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2008Sep/0013.html
The short summary is that there is a trade off between having a stable
reference to the Unicode database and allowing for more characters in "yet to
come" versions of Unicode. We think a good compromise would be to make it
implementation-defined which version of the database is used. This proposal is
also based on Bug 
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5818
Mark Davis pointed out at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2008Sep/0025.html
that the property Alias file
http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/PropertyValueAliases.txt
provides information about previous block names, so you might want to take that
into account as well.

Regards, Felix.


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