-March 30, 2001
+2005 March 30
-This directory contains the Unicode Character Database
-data files.
+Welcome to the Unicode Character Database
-Currently, the Unicode Character Database files are at
-the version level:
+This directory contains contributory data files
+for the Unicode Character Database of the Unicode Standard.
- Unicode Standard, Version 3.1.
+Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Unicode, Inc.
+For terms of use, see http://www.unicode.org/terms_of_use.html
-For information about the standard itself, see
-UAX #27, Unicode 3.1. <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/>
-
-Detailed documentation of the files constituting the
-Unicode Character Database (contributory data files for
-the standard itself) can now be found in
-UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html. See also UnicodeData.html,
-PropList.html, NamesList.html, and DerivedProperties.html
-for specific details about particular files or sets of
-files.
-
-Unihan.txt is a very large file. For convenience, the current
-Unicode 3.1 version of Unihan.txt is also available in
-three compressed formats in the Unicode 3.1 update directory.
-See: <http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.1-Update/> or
-<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.1-Update/>
-
-Unihan-3.1.zip for Windows. (Use winzip)
-Unihan-3.1.Z for Unix. (Use uncompress)
-Unihan-3.1.gz for Unix. (Use gzip)
-
-The Unicode 3.1 update directory also contains a winzip
-version of all the other contributory data files for
-that update directory. That file is named:
-
-UCDwithoutUnihan.zip (Use winzip)
-
-UCDwithoutUnihan.zip is a convenient way to download
-most of the Unicode Character Database files, but to
-be complete, be sure to also get ArabicShaping.txt,
-BidiMirroring.txt, and Jamo.txt, which were unchanged
-between Unicode 3.0.1 and Unicode 3.1, and which were
-therefore not included in the 3.1-Update directory.
-
-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
-UCDwithoutUnihan.zip will allow automatic download and unzipping on a
-Windows system with winzip installed.
+For an overview of how to access a specific version of
+the Unicode Character Database (UCD) and other information, see:
+http://www.unicode.org/ucd/
+If you accessed this file via the URL:
+http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/ReadMe.txt
+then you are looking at the most current version of the UCD.
+Otherwise the version number of the UCD is part of the path name.
+The file UCD.html in this directory, as well as any file
+headers, where present, also identify the version of the UCD.