Richard,
as I wrote in my previous message, not knowing the first thing about
character properties, some people immediately propose to carry all that
information in the character name...
A./
On 5/4/2015 8:07 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2015 16:07:31 +0200 (CEST)
[email protected] wrote:
The information about OPENING and CLOSING is one part of the
Formal Alias issue. The goal is to make the true names better known
and to allow people reading English, that is a huge majority, to get
at reach the full bandwith of Unicode information in real time.
Today, IMHO, the information about (and the availability of)
formal aliases seems to be out of reach for much software users who
are confronted with when searching for information about characters.
It therefore seems to be consistent to make it better available.
The same would apply to informative aliases.
Unicode clearly states in NamesList.txt, that “this file should not
be parsed for machine-readable information”.
By the way, all the informative aliases Unicode added for
the information of users, implementers and developers, are lost
because they seem to be nowhere else in the UCD.
The UCD file you want is ucdxml/ucd.all.grouped.xml or its flat
equivalent. On the Unicode site, they exists as zip files,
ucdxml/ucd.all.grouped.zip and ucdxml/ucd.all.flat.zip.
Richard.
