Dear Unicoders,
The unicode beta page mentions that a new concept of "provisional properties" has been introduced to 4.0. Unfortunately, no text is available that elaborates this. Is there any way to learn more about that prior to publication of TUS 4.0?
An updated draft of TR#23 "Unicode Character Property Model" was approved at the last UTC, and will be available shortly. I quote from the forthcoming draft:
"5.4 Provisional Properties
Some of the information provided about characters in the Unicode Character Database constitutes provisional data. Provisional property data may capture partial or preliminary information. Such data may contain errors or omissions, or otherwise not be ready for systematic use; however, provisional property data are included in the data files for distribution partly to encourage review and improvement of the information. For example, a number of the tags in the Unihan database provide provisional property values of various sorts about Han characters.
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All the best,
Christian Wittern
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Christian Wittern Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
