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@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
-The *.txt files were copied 11 Feb 2001 from
+The *.txt files were copied 27 Mar 2002 from
 
-       http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.1-Update/
+       http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/
 
-and most of them were renamed to better fit 8.3 filename limitations,
-by which the Perl distribution tries to live.  The renamings are listed
-in the file 'rename'.
+The two big files, NormalizationTest.txt (2.0MB) and Unihan.txt
+(25.7MB) were not included due to space considerations.  Also NOT
+included were any *.html files and the derived files:
 
-The two big files, NormalizationTest.txt (1.7MB) and Unihan.txt (15.8MB)
-were not copied due to space considerations.
+       DerivedAge.txt
+       DerivedCoreProperties.txt
+       DerivedNormalizationProps.txt
+       DerivedProperties.txt
 
-The *.pl files are generated from these files by the 'mktables.PL' script.
+and the normalization-related files
 
-While the files have been renamed the links in the html files haven't.
+       NormalizationCorrections.txt
+       NormalizationTest.txt
+
+To be 8.3-friendly, the lib/unicore/PropertyValueAliases.txt was
+renamed to be lib/unicore/PropValueAliases.txt, since otherwise
+it would have conflicted with lib/unicore/PropertyAliases.txt.
+
+The *.pl files are generated from these files by the mktables script.
 
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