On Mon, 4 May 2015 16:07:31 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] wrote:
> The information about OPENING and CLOSING is one part of the > Formal Alias issue. The goal is to make the true names better known > and to allow people reading English, that is a huge majority, to get > at reach the full bandwith of Unicode information in real time. > Today, IMHO, the information about (and the availability of) > formal aliases seems to be out of reach for much software users who > are confronted with when searching for information about characters. > It therefore seems to be consistent to make it better available. > The same would apply to informative aliases. > > Unicode clearly states in NamesList.txt, that “this file should not > be parsed for machine-readable information”. > By the way, all the informative aliases Unicode added for > the information of users, implementers and developers, are lost > because they seem to be nowhere else in the UCD. The UCD file you want is ucdxml/ucd.all.grouped.xml or its flat equivalent. On the Unicode site, they exists as zip files, ucdxml/ucd.all.grouped.zip and ucdxml/ucd.all.flat.zip. Richard.
