The only point would be to reflect spelling variants used in UCD data files… which may not be of sufficient benefit to bother.
From: Markus Scherer <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2025 12:29 PM To: Peter Constable <[email protected]> Cc: Asmus Freytag <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: Why does the spelling (capitalization) of decomposition types differ in DerivedDecompositionType.txt from UnicodeData.txt? On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM Peter Constable via Unicode <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: PropertyValueAliases.txt has this entry: dt ; Nb ; Nobreak ; nb What doesn't seem clear from UAX #44 is whether an alias could be added that is equivalent under name matching rules to an existing alias. It seems like that's allowed, but what would be the point? markus
