The first files in the Beta Unicode Character Database 3.1 are available for public review in http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.1-Update/. Unicode 3.1 contains a large number of new characters, in the following new blocks: 10300; 1032F; Old Italic 10330; 1034F; Gothic 10400; 1044F; Deseret 1D000; 1D0FF; Byzantine Musical Symbols 1D100; 1D1FF; Musical Symbols 1D400; 1D7FF; Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols 20000; 2A6D6; CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 2F800; 2FA1F; CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement E0000; E007F; Tags Note that these are supplementary characters, whose code points are given in 5-digit hex form (UTF-32). See http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ for more information. WARNING! - DO NOT use the data from these files in any released product. The beta versions of these data files will not be maintained and are subject to change without notice during the beta period for Unicode 3.1. They are preliminary versions, and have known errors and omissions. - DO test the data in these files with your products, and report any errors to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the title "UCD 3.1 Bug". Any messages that are sent to other mailing lists, or that do not have that precise title, will NOT be collected. Before reporting errors, please read http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/policies.html. NOTES: - Check your parsers carefully because the data files will contain supplementary code points, using 5 or 6 hex digits instead of just 4. - The main data file, UnicodeData.txt, has not changed in format, except for the addition of supplementary code points. However, there are format changes in other data files. - The PropList file has a substantially new format, to make it more machine-readable and reduce duplication. It will have further changes that have not yet gone in. - The East Asian Width and Line Break files have a slight revision in format: the name (which is duplicate information) is now in a comment rather than a field. - CaseFolding has a new format that makes it much easier to distinguish full and simple case foldings. It does not yet include case foldings for Deseret. - The documentation files (*.html) have not yet been updated. - Any changes requiring decision by the Unicode Technical Committee will be reviewed at the next meeting, Jan 29 - Feb 1. Please submit any error reports by Jan 22. (Cf. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/timesens/calendar.html) Mark ___ Mark Davis, IBM GCoC, Cupertino (408) 777-5850 [fax: 5891], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=10275+N.+De+Anza&csz=95014
