RE: Why does the spelling (capitalization) of decomposition types differ in DerivedDecompositionType.txt from UnicodeData.txt?

The only point would be to reflect spelling variants used in UCD data files… which may not be of sufficient benefit to bother.

From: Markus Scherer <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 12:29 PM
To: Peter Constable <[email protected]>
Cc: Asmus Freytag <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why does the spelling (capitalization) of decomposition types differ in DerivedDecompositionType.txt from UnicodeData.txt?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM Peter Constable via Unicode <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
PropertyValueAliases.txt has this entry:

dt ; Nb                               ; Nobreak                          ; nb

What doesn't seem clear from UAX #44 is whether an alias could be added that is equivalent under name matching rules to an existing alias.

It seems like that's allowed, but what would be the point?
markus