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<h1>Unicode Data File Format</h1>
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    <td valign="TOP">3.1.0</td>
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    <td valign="TOP" width="144">Authors</td>
    <td valign="TOP">Mark Davis and Ken Whistler</td>
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    <td valign="TOP">2001-02-28</td>
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<h3><br>
S<i>ummary</i></h3>
<blockquote>
  <p><i>This document describes the format and content of the UnicodeData.txt 
  file in the Unicode Character Database (UCD).</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><i>Status</i></h3>
<blockquote>
  <p><i>The file and the files described herein are part of the Unicode 
  Character Database&nbsp; and governed by the <a href="#UCD_Terms">UCD Terms of 
  Use</a> given below.</i></p>
  <p><i>For general information on file formats and table formats, and the 
  implications of normative vs informative properties, see 
  UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html. </i></p>
  <p><i><b>Warning: </b>the information in this file does not completely 
  describe the use and interpretation of Unicode character properties and 
  behavior. It must be used in conjunction with the data in the other files in 
  the UCD, and relies on the notation and definitions supplied in <a
  href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0.html">The 
  Unicode Standard</a>. All chapter references are to Version 3.1.0 of the 
  standard.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>This document describes the format of the UnicodeData.txt file, which is one 
of the files in the Unicode Character Database. The document is divided into the 
following sections:
<ul>
  <li><a href="#Field Formats">Field Formats</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#General Category">General Category</a></li>
      <li><a href="#Bidirectional Category">Bidirectional Category</a></li>
      <li><a href="#Character Decomposition">Character Decomposition Mapping</a></li>
      <li><a href="#Canonical Combining Classes">Canonical Combining Classes</a></li>
      <li><a href="#Decompositions and Normalization">Decompositions and 
        Normalization</a></li>
      <li><a href="#Case Mappings">Case Mappings</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li><a href="#Property Invariants">Property Invariants</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Modification History">Modification History</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Field Formats"></a>Field Formats</h2>
<p>Each line represents the data for one encoded character in the Unicode 
Standard. (For information on the file format, see UCD File Format in 
UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html).
<p>Every encoded character has a data entry, with the exception of certain 
special ranges, as detailed below.
<ul>
  <li>These ranges represented only by their start and end characters, since the 
    properties in the file are uniform, except for code values (which are all 
    sequential and assigned).</li>
  <li>The names of CJK ideograph characters and the names and decompositions of 
    Hangul syllable characters are algorithmically derivable. (See the Unicode 
    Standard and <a href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/">Unicode 
    Standard Annex #15</a> for more information).</li>
  <li>Surrogate code values and private use characters have no names.</li>
  <li>The supplementary Private Use characters (U+F0000 .. U+FFFFD, U+100000 .. 
    U+10FFFD) are listed as distinct ranges. These correspond to surrogate pairs 
    where the first surrogate is in the High Surrogate Private Use section.</li>
</ul>
<p>The exact ranges represented by start and end characters are:
<ul>
  <li>CJK Ideographs Extension A (U+3400 .. U+4DB5)</li>
  <li>CJK Ideographs (U+4E00 .. U+9FA5)</li>
  <li>Hangul Syllables (U+AC00 .. U+D7A3)</li>
  <li>Non-Private Use High Surrogates (U+D800 .. U+DB7F)</li>
  <li>Private Use High Surrogates (U+DB80 .. U+DBFF)</li>
  <li>Low Surrogates (U+DC00 .. U+DFFF)</li>
  <li>The Private Use Area (U+E000 .. U+F8FF)</li>
  <li>CJK Ideographs Extension B (U+20000 .. U+2A6D6)</li>
  <li>Plane 15 Private Use Area (U+F0000 .. U+FFFFD)</li>
  <li>Plane 16 Private Use Area (U+100000 .. U+10FFFD)</li>
</ul>
<p>The following table describes the format and meaning of each field in a data 
entry in the UnicodeData file.</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
  <tr>
    <th valign="top" align="LEFT">
      <p align="LEFT">Field</th>
    <th valign="top" align="LEFT">
      <p align="LEFT">Name</th>
    <th valign="top" align="center">
      <p align="LEFT">N/I</th>
    <th valign="top" align="LEFT">
      <p align="LEFT">Explanation</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">0</th>
    <td valign="top">Code value</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">Code value.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">1</th>
    <td valign="top">Character name</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">These names match exactly the names published in Chapter 14 
      of the Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.</td>
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  <tr>
    <th valign="top">2</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#General Category">General Category</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">This is a useful breakdown into various &quot;character 
      types&quot; which can be used as a default categorization in 
      implementations. See below for a brief explanation.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">3</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Canonical Combining Classes">Canonical Combining 
      Classes</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">The classes used for the Canonical Ordering Algorithm in 
      the Unicode Standard. These classes are also printed in Chapter 4 of the 
      Unicode Standard.</td>
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    <th valign="top">4</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Bidirectional Category">Bidirectional Category</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">See the list below for an explanation of the abbreviations 
      used in this field. These are the categories required by the Bidirectional 
      Behavior Algorithm in the Unicode Standard. These categories are 
      summarized in Chapter 3 of the Unicode Standard.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">5</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Character Decomposition">Character Decomposition 
      Mapping</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">In the Unicode Standard, not all of the mappings are full 
      (maximal) decompositions. Recursive application of look-up for 
      decompositions will, in all cases, lead to a maximal decomposition. The 
      decomposition mappings match exactly the decomposition mappings published 
      with the character names in the Unicode Standard.</td>
  </tr>
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    <th valign="top">6</th>
    <td valign="top">Decimal digit value</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">This is a numeric field. If the character has the decimal 
      digit property, as specified in Chapter 4 of the Unicode Standard, the 
      value of that digit is represented with an integer value in this field</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">7</th>
    <td valign="top">Digit value</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">This is a numeric field. If the character represents a 
      digit, not necessarily a decimal digit, the value is here. This covers 
      digits which do not form decimal radix forms, such as the compatibility 
      superscript digits</td>
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    <th valign="top">8</th>
    <td valign="top">Numeric value</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">This is a numeric field. If the character has the numeric 
      property, as specified in Chapter 4 of the Unicode Standard, the value of 
      that character is represented with an integer or rational number in this 
      field. This includes fractions as, e.g., &quot;1/5&quot; for U+2155 VULGAR 
      FRACTION ONE FIFTH Also included are numerical values for compatibility 
      characters such as circled numbers.</td>
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    <th valign="top">9</th>
    <td valign="top">Mirrored</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">If the character has been identified as a 
      &quot;mirrored&quot; character in bidirectional text, this field has the 
      value &quot;Y&quot;; otherwise &quot;N&quot;. The list of mirrored 
      characters is also printed in Chapter 4 of the Unicode Standard.</td>
  </tr>
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    <th valign="top">10</th>
    <td valign="top">Unicode 1.0 Name</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">I</td>
    <td valign="top">This is the old name as published in Unicode 1.0. This name 
      is only provided when it is significantly different from the current name 
      for the character.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">11</th>
    <td valign="top">10646 comment field</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">I</td>
    <td valign="top">This is the ISO 10646 comment field. It appears in 
      parentheses in the 10646 names list, or contains an asterisk to mark an 
      Annex P note.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">12</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Case Mappings">Uppercase Mapping</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">Upper case equivalent mapping. If a character is part of an 
      alphabet with case distinctions, and has a simple upper case equivalent, 
      then the upper case equivalent is in this field. See the explanation below 
      on case distinctions. These mappings are always one-to-one, not 
      one-to-many or many-to-one.
      <p><i>For full case mappings, see <a
      href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/">UTR #21</a> and 
      SpecialCasing.txt.</i></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">13</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Case Mappings">Lowercase Mapping</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">Similar to Uppercase mapping</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th valign="top">14</th>
    <td valign="top"><a href="#Case Mappings">Titlecase Mapping</a></td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">N</td>
    <td valign="top">Similar to Uppercase mapping</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3><a name="General Category"></a>General Category</h3>
<p>The values in this field are abbreviations for the following values. For more 
information, see the Unicode Standard.</p>
<blockquote>
  <p><b>Note:</b> the standard does not assign information to control characters 
  (except for certain cases in the Bidirectional Algorithm). Implementations 
  will generally also assign categories to certain control characters, notably 
  CR and LF, according to platform conventions. See <a
  href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr13/">UAX #13: Unicode Newline 
  Guidelines</a> for more information.</p>
</blockquote>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
  <tr>
    <th>
      <p align="LEFT">Abbr.</th>
    <th>
      <p align="LEFT">Description</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Lu</td>
    <td>Letter, Uppercase</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Ll</td>
    <td>Letter, Lowercase</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Lt</td>
    <td>Letter, Titlecase</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Lm</td>
    <td>Letter, Modifier</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Lo</td>
    <td>Letter, Other</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Mn</td>
    <td>Mark, Non-Spacing</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Mc</td>
    <td>Mark, Spacing Combining</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Me</td>
    <td>Mark, Enclosing</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Nd</td>
    <td>Number, Decimal Digit</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Nl</td>
    <td>Number, Letter</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">No</td>
    <td>Number, Other</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Pc</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Connector</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Pd</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Dash</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Ps</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Open</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Pe</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Close</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Pi</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Pf</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Final quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Po</td>
    <td>Punctuation, Other</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Sm</td>
    <td>Symbol, Math</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Sc</td>
    <td>Symbol, Currency</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Sk</td>
    <td>Symbol, Modifier</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">So</td>
    <td>Symbol, Other</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Zs</td>
    <td>Separator, Space</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Zl</td>
    <td>Separator, Line</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Zp</td>
    <td>Separator, Paragraph</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Cc</td>
    <td>Other, Control</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Cf</td>
    <td>Other, Format</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Cs</td>
    <td>Other, Surrogate</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Co</td>
    <td>Other, Private Use</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">Cn</td>
    <td>Other, Not Assigned (no characters in the file have this property)</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
  <p><b>Note:</b> The term &quot;L&amp;&quot; is sometimes used to stand for 
  Uppercase, Lowercase or Titlecase letters (Lu, Ll, or Lt).</p>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Bidirectional Category"></a>Bidirectional Category</h3>
<p>Please refer to Chapter 3 for an explanation of the algorithm for 
Bidirectional Behavior and an explanation of the significance of these 
categories. An up-to-date version can be found on <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/">Unicode Standard Annex #9: 
The Bidirectional Algorithm</a>.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <th valign="TOP" align="LEFT">
      <p align="LEFT">Type</th>
    <th valign="TOP" align="LEFT">
      <p align="LEFT">Description</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>L</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>LRE</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right Embedding</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>LRO</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Left-to-Right Override</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>R</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>AL</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Arabic</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>RLE</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Embedding</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>RLO</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Right-to-Left Override</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>PDF</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Pop Directional Format</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>EN</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">European Number</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>ES</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">European Number Separator</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>ET</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">European Number Terminator</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>AN</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Arabic Number</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>CS</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Common Number Separator</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>NSM</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Non-Spacing Mark</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>BN</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Boundary Neutral</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>B</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Paragraph Separator</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>S</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Segment Separator</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>WS</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Whitespace</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="TOP"><b>ON</b></td>
    <td valign="TOP">Other Neutrals</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3><a name="Character Decomposition"></a>Character Decomposition Mapping</h3>
<p>The tags supplied with certain decomposition mappings generally indicate 
formatting information. Where no such tag is given, the mapping is designated as 
canonical. Conversely, the presence of a formatting tag also indicates that the 
mapping is a compatibility mapping and not a canonical mapping. In the absence 
of other formatting information in a compatibility mapping, the tag is used to 
distinguish it from canonical mappings.</p>
<p>In some instances a canonical mapping or a compatibility mapping may consist 
of a single character. For a canonical mapping, this indicates that the 
character is a canonical equivalent of another single character. For a 
compatibility mapping, this indicates that the character is a compatibility 
equivalent of another single character. The compatibility formatting tags used 
are:</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
  <tr>
    <th>Tag</th>
    <th>
      <p align="LEFT">Description</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;font&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A font variant (e.g. a blackletter form).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;noBreak&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A no-break version of a space or hyphen.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;initial&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>An initial presentation form (Arabic).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;medial&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A medial presentation form (Arabic).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;final&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A final presentation form (Arabic).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;isolated&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>An isolated presentation form (Arabic).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;circle&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>An encircled form.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;super&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A superscript form.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;sub&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A subscript form.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;vertical&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A vertical layout presentation form.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;wide&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A wide (or zenkaku) compatibility character.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;narrow&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A narrow (or hankaku) compatibility character.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;small&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A small variant form (CNS compatibility).</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;square&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A CJK squared font variant.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;fraction&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>A vulgar fraction form.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="CENTER">&lt;compat&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>Otherwise unspecified compatibility character.</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p><b>Reminder: </b>There is a difference between decomposition and 
decomposition mapping. The decomposition mappings are defined in the UnicodeData, 
while the decomposition (also termed &quot;full decomposition&quot;) is defined 
in Chapter 3 to use those mappings <i>recursively.</i>
<ul>
  <li>The canonical decomposition is formed by recursively applying the 
    canonical mappings, then applying the canonical reordering algorithm.</li>
  <li>The compatibility decomposition is formed by recursively applying the 
    canonical <em>and</em> compatibility mappings, then applying the canonical 
    reordering algorithm.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Canonical Combining Classes"></a>Canonical Combining Classes</h3>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
  <tr>
    <th>
      <p align="LEFT">Value</th>
    <th>
      <p align="LEFT">Description</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">0:</td>
    <td>Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">1:</td>
    <td>Overlays and interior</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">7:</td>
    <td>Nuktas</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">8:</td>
    <td>Hiragana/Katakana voicing marks</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">9:</td>
    <td>Viramas</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">10:</td>
    <td>Start of fixed position classes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">199:</td>
    <td>End of fixed position classes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">200:</td>
    <td>Below left attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">202:</td>
    <td>Below attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">204:</td>
    <td>Below right attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">208:</td>
    <td>Left attached (reordrant around single base character)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">210:</td>
    <td>Right attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">212:</td>
    <td>Above left attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">214:</td>
    <td>Above attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">216:</td>
    <td>Above right attached</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">218:</td>
    <td>Below left</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">220:</td>
    <td>Below</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">222:</td>
    <td>Below right</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">224:</td>
    <td>Left (reordrant around single base character)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">226:</td>
    <td>Right</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">228:</td>
    <td>Above left</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">230:</td>
    <td>Above</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">232:</td>
    <td>Above right</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">233:</td>
    <td>Double below</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">234:</td>
    <td>Double above</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="RIGHT">240:</td>
    <td>Below (iota subscript)</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p><strong>Note: </strong>some of the combining classes in this list do not 
currently have members but are specified here for completeness.</p>
<h3><a name="Decompositions and Normalization"></a>Decompositions and 
Normalization</h3>
<p>Decomposition is specified in Chapter 3. <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/"><i>Unicode Standard Annex 
#15: Unicode Normalization Forms</i></a> specifies the interaction between 
decomposition and normalization. That report specifies how the decompositions 
defined in UnicodeData.txt are used to derive normalized forms of Unicode text.</p>
<p>Note that as of the 2.1.9 update of the Unicode Character Database, the 
decompositions in the UnicodeData.txt file can be used to recursively derive the 
full decomposition in canonical order, without the need to separately apply 
canonical reordering. However, canonical reordering of combining character 
sequences <b><i>must</i></b> still be applied in decomposition when normalizing 
source text which contains any combining marks.</p>
<h3><a name="Case Mappings"></a>Case Mappings</h3>
<p>There are a number of complications to case mappings that occur once the 
repertoire of characters is expanded beyond ASCII. For more information, see <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/">UTR #21: Case Mappings</a>.</p>
<p>For compatibility with existing parsers, UnicodeData.txt only contains case 
mappings for characters where they are one-to-one mappings; it also omits 
information about context-sensitive case mappings. Information about these 
special cases can be found in a separate data file, SpecialCasing.txt.</p>
<h2><a name="Property Invariants"></a>Property Invariants</h2>
<p>Values in UnicodeData.txt are subject to correction as errors are found; 
however, some characteristics of the categories themselves can be considered 
invariants. Applications may wish to take these invariants into account when 
choosing how to implement character properties. For more information, see <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/policies.html">Unicode Policies</a>.</p>
<p>The following is a partial list of known invariants for the Unicode Character 
Database.</p>
<h4>Database Fields</h4>
<ul>
  <li>The number of fields in UnicodeData.txt is fixed.</li>
  <li>The order of the fields is also fixed.
    <ul>
      <li>Any additional information about character properties to be added in 
        the future will appear in separate data tables, rather than being added 
        on to the existing table or by subdivision or reinterpretation of 
        existing fields.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
<h4>General Category</h4>
<ul>
  <li>There will never be more than 32 General Category values.
    <ul>
      <li>It is very unlikely that the Unicode Technical Committee will 
        subdivide the General Category partition any further, since that can 
        cause implementations to misbehave. Because the General Category is 
        limited to 32 values, 5 bits can be used to represent the information, 
        and a 32-bit integer can be used as a bitmask to represent arbitrary 
        sets of categories.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
<h4>Combining Classes</h4>
<ul>
  <li>Combining classes are limited to the values 0 to 255.
    <ul>
      <li>In practice, there are far fewer than 256 values used. Implementations 
        may take advantage of this fact for compression, since only the ordering 
        of the non-zero values matters for the Canonical Reordering Algorithm. 
        It is possible for up to 256 values to be used in the future; however, 
        UTC decisions in the future may restrict the number of values to 128, 
        since this has implementation advantages. [Signed bytes can be used 
        without widening to ints in Java, for example.]</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>All characters other than those of General Category M* have the combining 
    class 0.
    <ul>
      <li>Currently, all characters other than those of General Category Mn have 
        the value 0. However, some characters of General Category Me or Mc may 
        be given non-zero values in the future.</li>
      <li>The precise values above the value 0 are not invariant--only the 
        relative ordering is considered normative. For example, it is not 
        guaranteed in future versions that the class of U+05B4 will be precisely 
        14.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
<h4>Canonical Decomposition</h4>
<ul>
  <li>Canonical mappings are always in canonical order.</li>
  <li>Canonical mappings have only the first of a pair possibly further 
    decomposing.</li>
  <li>Canonical decompositions are &quot;transparent&quot; to other character 
    data:
    <ul>
      <li><tt>BIDI(a) = BIDI(principal(canonicalDecomposition(a))</tt></li>
      <li><tt>Category(a) = Category(principal(canonicalDecomposition(a))</tt></li>
      <li><tt>CombiningClass(a) = 
        CombiningClass(principal(canonicalDecomposition(a))</tt><br>
        where principal(a) is the first character not of type Mn, or the first 
        character if all characters are of type Mn.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>However, because there are sometimes missing case pairs, and because of 
    some legacy characters, it is only generally true that:
    <ul>
      <li><tt>upper(canonicalDecomposition(a)) = canonicalDecomposition(upper(a))</tt></li>
      <li><tt>lower(canonicalDecomposition(a)) = canonicalDecomposition(lower(a))</tt></li>
      <li><tt>title(canonicalDecomposition(a)) = canonicalDecomposition(title(a))</tt></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="Modification History"></a>Modification History</h2>
<p>This section provides a summary of the changes between update versions of the 
Unicode Standard.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 3.1">Unicode 
3.1</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.0.1 of UnicodeData.txt include:
<ul>
  <li>Addition of 2237 new entries, to cover new characters and new ranges of 
    unified Han characters encoded in Unicode 3.1.</li>
  <li>Changed General Category value of 16EE..16F0 (Runic golden numbers) from 
    No to Nl.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 3.0.1">Unicode 
3.0.1</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.0.1 of UnicodeData.txt include:
<ul>
  <li>Added 5- and 6-digit representation of code points past U+FFFF.</li>
  <li>Added Private Use range definitions for Planes 15 and 16.</li>
  <li>Minor additions for the 10646 comment field.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 3.0.0">Unicode 
3.0.0</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 3.0.0 of UnicodeData.txt include many new 
characters and a number of property changes. These are summarized in Appendex D 
of <em>The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.</em></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.1.9">Unicode 
2.1.9</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.9 of UnicodeData.txt include:
<ul>
  <li>Corrected combining class for U+05AE HEBREW ACCENT ZINOR.</li>
  <li>Corrected combining class for U+20E1 COMBINING LEFT RIGHT ARROW ABOVE</li>
  <li>Corrected combining class for U+0F35 and U+0F37 to 220.</li>
  <li>Corrected combining class for U+0F71 to 129.</li>
  <li>Added a decomposition for U+0F0C TIBETAN MARK DELIMITER TSHEG BSTAR.</li>
  <li>Added&nbsp; decompositions for several Greek symbol letters: 
    U+03D0..U+03D2, U+03D5, U+03D6, U+03F0..U+03F2.</li>
  <li>Removed&nbsp; decompositions from the conjoining jamo block: 
    U+1100..U+11F8.</li>
  <li>Changes to decomposition mappings for some Tibetan vowels for consistency 
    in normalization. (U+0F71, U+0F73, U+0F77, U+0F79, U+0F81)</li>
  <li>Updated the decomposition mappings for several Vietnamese characters with 
    two diacritics (U+1EAC, U+1EAD, U+1EB6, U+1EB7, U+1EC6, U+1EC7, U+1ED8, 
    U+1ED9), so that the recursive decomposition can be generated directly in 
    canonically reordered form (not a normative change).</li>
  <li>Updated the decomposition mappings for several Arabic compatibility 
    characters involving shadda (U+FC5E..U+FC62, U+FCF2..U+FCF4), and two Latin 
    characters (U+1E1C, U+1E1D), so that the decompositions are generated 
    directly in canonically reordered form (not a normative change).</li>
  <li>Changed BIDI category for: U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, U+2007 FIGURE SPACE, 
    U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR.</li>
  <li>Changed BIDI category for extenders of General Category Lm: U+3005, 
    U+3021..U+3035, U+FF9E, U+FF9F.</li>
  <li>Changed General Category and BIDI category for the Greek numeral signs: 
    U+0374, U+0375.</li>
  <li>Corrected General Category for U+FFE8 HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL.</li>
  <li>Added Unicode 1.0 names for many Tibetan characters (informative).</li>
</ul>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.1.8">Unicode 
2.1.8</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.8 of UnicodeData.txt include:
<ul>
  <li>Added combining class 240 for U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI so that 
    decompositions involving iota subscript are derivable directly in 
    canonically reordered form; this also has a bearing on simplification of 
    casing of polytonic Greek.</li>
  <li>Changes in decompositions related to Greek tonos. These result from the 
    clarification that monotonic Greek &quot;tonos&quot; should be equated with 
    U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE, rather than with U+030D COMBINING VERTICAL LINE 
    ABOVE. (All Greek characters in the Greek block involving &quot;tonos&quot;; 
    some Greek characters in the polytonic Greek in the 1FXX block.)</li>
  <li>Changed decompositions involving dialytika tonos. (U+0390, U+03B0)</li>
  <li>Changed ternary decompositions to binary. (U+0CCB, U+FB2C, U+FB2D) These 
    changes simplify normalization.</li>
  <li>Removed canonical decomposition for Latin Candrabindu. (U+0310)</li>
  <li>Corrected error in canonical decomposition for U+1FF4.</li>
  <li>Added compatibility decompositions to clarify collation tables. (U+2100, 
    U+2101, U+2105, U+2106, U+1E9A)</li>
  <li>A series of general category changes to assist the convergence of of 
    Unicode definition of identifier with ISO TR 10176:
    <ul>
      <li>So &gt; Lo: U+0950, U+0AD0, U+0F00, U+0F88..U+0F8B</li>
      <li>Po &gt; Lo: U+0E2F, U+0EAF, U+3006</li>
      <li>Lm &gt; Sk: U+309B, U+309C</li>
      <li>Po &gt; Pc: U+30FB, U+FF65</li>
      <li>Ps/Pe &gt; Mn: U+0F3E, U+0F3F</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>A series of bidi property changes for consistency.
    <ul>
      <li>L &gt; ET: U+09F2, U+09F3</li>
      <li>ON &gt; L: U+3007</li>
      <li>L &gt; ON: U+0F3A..U+0F3D, U+037E, U+0387</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Add case mapping: U+01A6 &lt;-&gt; U+0280</li>
  <li>Updated symmetric swapping value for guillemets: U+00AB, U+00BB, U+2039, 
    U+203A.</li>
  <li>Changes to combining class values. Most Indic fixed position class 
    non-spacing marks were changed to combining class 0. This fixes some 
    inconsistencies in how canonical reordering would apply to Indic scripts, 
    including Tibetan. Indic interacting top/bottom fixed position classes were 
    merged into single (non-zero) classes as part of this change. Tibetan 
    subjoined consonants are changed from combining class 6 to combining class 
    0. Thai pinthu (U+0E3A) moved to combining class 9. Moved two Devanagari 
    stress marks into generic above and below combining classes (U+0951, 
    U+0952).</li>
  <li>Corrected placement of semicolon near symmetric swapping field. (U+FA0E, 
    etc., scattered positions to U+FA29)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.7</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly 
released.</i></p>
<h3>Version 2.1.6</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly 
released.</i></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.1.5">Unicode 
2.1.5</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made for Version 2.1.5 of UnicodeData.txt include:
<ul>
  <li>Changed decomposition for U+FF9E and U+FF9F so that correct collation 
    weighting will automatically result from the canonical equivalences.</li>
  <li>Removed canonical decompositions for U+04D4, U+04D5, U+04D8, U+04D9, 
    U+04E0, U+04E1, U+04E8, U+04E9 (the implication being that no canonical 
    equivalence is claimed between these 8 characters and similar Latin 
    letters), and updated 4 canonical decompositions for U+04DB, U+04DC, U+04EA, 
    U+04EB to reflect the implied difference in the base character.</li>
  <li>Added Pi, and Pf categories and assigned the relevant quotation marks to 
    those categories, based on the Unicode Technical Corrigendum on Quotation 
    Characters.</li>
  <li>Updating of many bidi properties, following the advice of the ad hoc 
    committee on bidi, and to make the bidi properties of compatibility 
    characters more consistent.</li>
  <li>Changed category of several Tibetan characters: U+0F3E, U+0F3F, 
    U+0F88..U+0F8B to make them non-combining, reflecting the combined opinion 
    of Tibetan experts.</li>
  <li>Added case mapping for U+03F2.</li>
  <li>Corrected case mapping for U+0275.</li>
  <li>Added titlecase mappings for U+03D0, U+03D1, U+03D5, U+03D6, U+03F0.. 
    U+03F2.</li>
  <li>Corrected compatibility label for U+2121.</li>
  <li>Add specific entries for all the CJK compatibility ideographs, 
    U+F900..U+FA2D, so the canonical decomposition for each (the URO character 
    it is equivalent to) can be carried in the database.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.4</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly 
released.</i></p>
<h3>Version 2.1.3</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly 
released.</i></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.1.2">Unicode 
2.1.2</a></h3>
<p>Modifications made in updating UnicodeData.txt to Version 2.1.2 for the 
Unicode Standard, Version 2.1 (from Version 2.0) include:
<ul>
  <li>Added two characters (U+20AC and U+FFFC).</li>
  <li>Amended bidi properties for U+0026, U+002E, U+0040, U+2007.</li>
  <li>Corrected case mappings for U+018E, U+019F, U+01DD, U+0258, U+0275, 
    U+03C2, U+1E9B.</li>
  <li>Changed combining order class for U+0F71.</li>
  <li>Corrected canonical decompositions for U+0F73, U+1FBE.</li>
  <li>Changed decomposition for U+FB1F from compatibility to canonical.</li>
  <li>Added compatibility decompositions for U+FBE8, U+FBE9, U+FBF9..U+FBFB.</li>
  <li>Corrected compatibility decompositions for U+2469, U+246A, U+3358.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 2.1.1</h3>
<p><i>This version was for internal change tracking only, and never publicly 
released.</i></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/enumeratedversions.html#Unicode 2.0.0">Unicode 
2.0.0</a></h3>
<p>The modifications made in updating UnicodeData.txt for the Unicode Standard, 
Version 2.0 include:
<ul>
  <li>Fixed decompositions with TONOS to use correct NSM: 030D.</li>
  <li>Removed old Hangul Syllables; mapping to new characters are in a separate 
    table.</li>
  <li>Marked compatibility decompositions with additional tags.</li>
  <li>Changed old tag names for clarity.</li>
  <li>Revision of decompositions to use first-level decomposition, instead of 
    maximal decomposition.</li>
  <li>Correction of all known errors in decompositions from earlier versions.</li>
  <li>Added control code names (as old Unicode names).</li>
  <li>Added Hangul Jamo decompositions.</li>
  <li>Added Number category to match properties list in book.</li>
  <li>Fixed categories of Koranic Arabic marks.</li>
  <li>Fixed categories of precomposed characters to match decomposition where 
    possible.</li>
  <li>Added Hebrew cantillation marks and the Tibetan script.</li>
  <li>Added place holders for ranges such as CJK Ideographic Area and the 
    Private Use Area.</li>
  <li>Added categories Me, Sk, Pc, Nl, Cs, Cf, and rectified a number of 
    mistakes in the database.</li>
</ul>
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