Upgrade to Unicode 3.1 beta 2001-03-23.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / unicode / ReadMe.txt

diff --git a/lib/unicode/ReadMe.txt b/lib/unicode/ReadMe.txt
index c2c4aee..85adb80 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/unicode/ReadMe.txt
+++ b/lib/unicode/ReadMe.txt
@@ -1,45 +1,38 @@
-June 23, 1999
+March 23, 2001
 
-This directory contains the initial release for Unicode 3.0.
+This directory contains the data files for the minor release 
+Unicode 3.1.
 
 This release consists of corrections and additions to the
-Unicode Character Database, to match the publication of
-The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.
+Unicode Character Database for the Unicode Standard, 
+Version 3.1.
 
 Detailed documentation of the files constituting the
 Unicode Character Database (contributory data files for
 the standard itself) can now be found in
-UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html.
+UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html. See also UnicodeData.html,
+PropList.html, NamesList.html, and DerivedProperties.html
+for specific details about particular files or sets of
+files.
 
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-NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE 
+Unihan-3.1.txt is a very large file, so it is also provided in
+three different compressed formats:
 
-The files have been copied from
+Unihan-3.1.zip for Windows. (Use winzip)
+Unihan-3.1.Z   for Unix.    (Use uncompress)
+Unihan-3.1.gz  for Unix.    (Use gzip)
 
-       ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/
+UCDwithoutUnihan.zip is a Windows winzip file that contains
+all of the Unicode Character Database files except
+Unihan-3.1.txt and this ReadMe.txt file. This file is
+provided for convenience when downloading files from the
+Unicode Character Database. Note that the files are zipped in
+exactly the same format they have on the server (with Unix
+line endings). From a browser, right-clicking on this file
+entry will allow automatic download and unzipping on a
+Windows system with winzip installed.
 
-and most of them have been renamed to better fit 8.3 filename limitations.
 
-long name at unicode.org               short name              latest '#'
-------------------------               ----------              ----------
-ArabicShaping-#.txt                    ArabShap.txt            2
-Blocks-#.txt                           Blocks.txt              3
-CompositionExclusions-#.txt            CompExcl.txt            1
-EastAsianWidth-#.txt                   EAWidth.txt             3
-Index-#.txt                            Index.txt               3.0.0
-Jamo-#.txt                             Jamo.txt                2
-LineBreak-#.txt                                LineBrk.txt             5
-NamesList-#.txt                                Names.txt               3.0.0
-NamesList-#.html                       NamesList.html          1
-PropList-#.txt                         Props.txt               3.0.0
-SpecialCasing-#.txt                    SpecCase.txt            2
-UnicodeData-#.txt                      Unicode.300             3.0.0
-UnicodeData-#.html                     Unicode3.html           3.0.0
-UnicodeCharacterDatabase-#.html                UCD300.html             3.0.0
 
-The *.pl files are generated from these files by the 'mktables.PL' script.
 
-While the files have been renamed the links in the html files haven't.
 
--- 
-jhi@iki.fi