lib/unicode/README.perl

   1 The *.txt files were copied 30 Aug 2000 from
   2
   3         http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/
   4
   5 and most of them were renamed to better fit 8.3 filename limitations,
   6 by which the Perl distribution tries to live.
   7
   8         www.unicode.org                 Perl distribution
   9
  10         ArabicShaping.txt               ArabShap.txt
  11         BidiMirroring.txt               BidiMirr.txt
  12         Blocks.txt                      Blocks.txt
  13         CaseFolding.txt                 CaseFold.txt
  14         CompositionExclusions.txt       CompExcl.txt
  15         EastAsianWidth.txt              EAWidth.txt     (0)
  16         Index.txt                       Index.txt
  17         Jamo.txt                        Jamo.txt
  18         LineBreak.txt                   LineBrk.txt     (0)
  19         NamesList.html                  NamesList.html  (0)
  20         NamesList.txt                   Names.txt
  21         PropList.txt                    PropList.txt
  22         ReadMe.txt                      ReadMe.txt
  23         SpecialCasing.txt               SpecCase.txt
  24         UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html   UCD301.html
  25         UnicodeData.html                UCDFF301.html
  26         UnicodeData.txt                 Unicode.301
  27
  28 The two big files, NormalizationTest.txt (1.7MB) and Unihan.txt (15.8MB)
  29 were not copied for space considerations.  The files marked with (0) had
  30 not been updated since Unicode 3.0.0 (10 Sep 1999)
  31
  32 The *.pl files are generated from these files by the 'mktables.PL' script.
  33
  34 While the files have been renamed the links in the html files haven't.
  35
  36 --
  37 jhi@iki.fi