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
