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@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
The *.txt files were copied from
- http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.0.0/ucd
-as of Unicode 5.0.0 (July 2006).
+ http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd
+
+as of Unicode 5.1.0 (March 2008).
The two big files, NormalizationTest.txt (2 MB) and Unihan.txt (28 MB,
5.8 MB zip) were not included due to space considerations. Also NOT
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ included were any *.html files and the Derived*.txt files
or any files from subdirectories.
-To be 8.3-friendly, the lib/unicore/PropertyValueAliases.txt was
+To be 8.3 filesystem friendly, the lib/unicore/PropertyValueAliases.txt was
renamed to be lib/unicore/PropValueAliases.txt and the
lib/unicore/NamedSequencesProv.txt was renamed to be
lib/unicore/NamedSqProv.txt, since otherwise they would have
@@ -30,6 +31,9 @@ the build process.
FOR PUMPKINS
+The files are inter-related. If you take the latest UnicodeData.txt, for example,
+but leave the older versions of other files, there can be subtle problems.
+
The *.pl files are generated from the *.txt files by the mktables script,
more recently done during the Perl build process, but if you want to try
the old manual way: