Re: Why does the spelling (capitalization) of decomposition types differ in DerivedDecompositionType.txt from UnicodeData.txt?
Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]>
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On 2/18/2025 10:44 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > The spellings are equivalent under the naming rules. That's all that > formally matters. Fixing this now, would break any literal-minded > parsers for whichever file is changed, while not making a formal > difference. > > There are enough other idiosyncrasies in the way these files are > organized, that this one is far from the worst. > > The only rule that matters is that any of the values in > PropertyValueAliases.txt, when matched without regard to case, > hyphens, or underscore, matches all the other ones for the same > property value. Sorry, badly phased: any string that matches any of the ... > > For character names, spaces also don't count (but there are 2-3 odd > exceptional names that need to be handled specially). > > A./ > > On 2/18/2025 8:04 AM, Phil Smith III via Unicode wrote: >> This sounds interesting, but with no links or other references is a >> bit opaque. Can you add more information? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Unicode <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> prospero via Unicode >> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2025 3:11 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Why does the spelling (capitalization) of decomposition >> types differ in DerivedDecompositionType.txt from UnicodeData.txt? >> >> For example, "Nobreak" in DerivedDecompositionType.txt vs "noBreak" >> in UnicodeData.txt. If the former is derived from the latter, >> shouldn't the spelling be identical? >> >> >