Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Tue, 23 May 2017 17:44:49 -0700 Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote: > Ah, but keep in mind, if projecting out to Version 23.0 (in the year > 2030, by our current schedule), there is a significant chance that > particular UCD data files may have morphed into something entirely > different. Reca

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
Richard On 5/23/2017 1:48 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: The object is to generate code*now* that, up to say Unicode Version 23.0, can work out, from the UCD files DerivedAge.txt and PropertyValueAliases.txt, whether an arbitrary code point was included by some Unicode version ident

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Tue, 23 May 2017 05:29:33 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > On 5/23/2017 4:04 AM, Janusz S. Bien via Unicode wrote: > > Quote/Cytat - Manuel Strehl via Unicode (Tue > > 23 May 2017 11:33:24 AM CEST): > > > >> The rising standard in the world of web development (and others) > >> is ca

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
2017-05-23 8:43 GMT+02:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode : > On 5/22/2017 3:49 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > >> One of the objectives is to use a current version of the UCD to >> determine, for example, which characters were in Version x.y. One >> needs that for a regular expression such

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 5/23/2017 4:04 AM, Janusz S. Bien via Unicode wrote: Quote/Cytat - Manuel Strehl via Unicode (Tue 23 May 2017 11:33:24 AM CEST): The rising standard in the world of web development (and others) is called »Semantic Versioning« [1], that many projects adhere to or sometimes must actively e

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Janusz S. Bien via Unicode
Quote/Cytat - Manuel Strehl via Unicode (Tue 23 May 2017 11:33:24 AM CEST): The rising standard in the world of web development (and others) is called »Semantic Versioning« [1], that many projects adhere to or sometimes must actively explain, why they don't. The structure of a »semantic vers

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-23 Thread Manuel Strehl via Unicode
The rising standard in the world of web development (and others) is called »Semantic Versioning« [1], that many projects adhere to or sometimes must actively explain, why they don't. The structure of a »semantic version« string is a set of three integers, MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, where the »sematics« pa

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 5/22/2017 3:49 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: One of the objectives is to use a current version of the UCD to determine, for example, which characters were in Version x.y. One needs that for a regular expression such as [:Age=3.0:], which also matches all characters that have survi

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 22 May 2017 17:19:08 -0500 Anshuman Pandey wrote: > I performed several operations on DerivedAge.txt a few months ago. > One basic example here: > > https://pandey.github.io/posts/unicode-growth-UCD-python.html So what happens if you apply it to Unicode Version 10.0? Are the versions s

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 22 May 2017 15:10:02 -0700 Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > Given two raw values of the Age property, defined in UCD file > > DerivedAge.txt, how is a computer program supposed to c

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
I performed several operations on DerivedAge.txt a few months ago. One basic example here: https://pandey.github.io/posts/unicode-growth-UCD-python.html If you provide some more insight into your objective, I might be able to help. I would recommend against relying on the order of the data, and

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Markus Scherer via Unicode
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Given two raw values of the Age property, defined in UCD file > DerivedAge.txt, how is a computer program supposed to compare them? > Apart from special handling for the value "Unassigned" and its short

Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
Given two raw values of the Age property, defined in UCD file DerivedAge.txt, how is a computer program supposed to compare them? Apart from special handling for the value "Unassigned" and its short alias "NA", one used to be able to compare short values against short values and long values against