The Unicode Technical Committee would like to announce availability of the beta Default Unicode Collation Element Table for UCA 4.0. Feedback is invited.
The primary goal of this release is to synchronize the repertoire of strings for collation (sorting) with the repertoire of Unicode 4.0. For future versions of the Unicode Standard that add characters, there will also be versions of the UCA tables with synchronized repertoire. A small number of additional changes have been made for consistency in treatment of new and old characters; however, other changes await working with SC22/WG2 so that future versions of ISO 14651 and UCA can be synchronized. The relevant data file is found here: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/allkeys-4.0.0d1.txt Please also look at the corresponding proposed update version of Unicode Technical Standard #10, The Unicode Collation Algorithm: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/tr10-10.html Due to production difficulties, the beta period for this is quite short; comments for this version must be submitted by end of day, August 26, 2003. However, comments directed to the next version can be submitted after this date. Please submit feedback with the reporting form at: http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html Regards, Rick McGowan