Mike Gran <[email protected]> writes:

>> Thanks for the Unicode 6.1 update!  Now, however:
>> 
>>   FAIL: srfi-14.test: Latin-1 (8-bit charset): char-set:symbol
>> 
>> Would you be willing to investigate?
>
> Looks like Unicode 6.1 has recategorized some of the symbols, including
> a few in Latin-1.
>  
> "§" U+00A7 SECTION SIGN from Symbol_Other to Punctuation_Other

Utter nonsense.

> "¶" U+00B6 PILCROW SIGN from Symbol_Other to Punctuation_Other

Makes sense.

> It seems that the correct response would be just to change
> the Latin-1 test cases.

Differing from the standard would be asking for even more trouble.  I
have no idea what sense declaring § as punctuation makes (it is not used
in that manner), but at least for ¶, there is some motivation.

-- 
David Kastrup


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