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Re: GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.5-5-gbf8d845
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GNU Guile branch, stable-2.0, updated. v2.0.5-5-gbf8d845 |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:07:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
>> Thanks for the Unicode 6.1 update! Now, however:
>>
>> FAIL: srfi-14.test: Latin-1 (8-bit charset): char-set:symbol
>>
>> Would you be willing to investigate?
>
> Looks like Unicode 6.1 has recategorized some of the symbols, including
> a few in Latin-1.
>
> "§" U+00A7 SECTION SIGN from Symbol_Other to Punctuation_Other
Utter nonsense.
> "¶" U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN from Symbol_Other to Punctuation_Other
Makes sense.
> It seems that the correct response would be just to change
> the Latin-1 test cases.
Differing from the standard would be asking for even more trouble. I
have no idea what sense declaring § as punctuation makes (it is not used
in that manner), but at least for ¶, there is some motivation.
--
David Kastrup