Proposed text on Unicode version

The current text in the section called "Terminals" says:

     "The version of Unicode cited is the one current at the time the 
initial version of this specification was published. Processors may support 
any version of Unicode; it is implementation-defined which version(s) they 
support."

I propose moving this to the section on "Conformance of processors", remove 
the text there that says "There is no conformance requirement on which 
version of Unicode is used."

and make a bullet point that says:

     "Processors may support any version of Unicode; it is 
implementation-defined which version(s) they support. The version of 
Unicode cited is the one current at the time this specification was 
published."

And then update the reference to the latest version, which is 17.0: 
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/

Funnily enough, the URL https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ works, so 
we could also refer to that.

Steven

Received on Monday, 19 January 2026 15:38:16 UTC