Re: Proposed text on Unicode version

Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> 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/

That works for me.

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

I think I prefer a real version rather than “latest”. Certainly if we say 17, we should point to 17. If we want to say “latest” instead, then I guess we should point to latest.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 19 January 2026 17:00:06 UTC