Richard, > But the consortium has formally dropped the commitment to DUCET in CLDR. > Even when restricted to strings of assigned characters, the > CLDR and ICU no longer make the effort to support the DUCET > collation.
CLDR is not a collation implementation, it is a data repository with associated specification. It was never required to 'support' DUCET. The contents of CLDR have no bearing on whether implementations support DUCET. CLDR ≠ ICU. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 13:40:21 +0200 > Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The UCA contains features essential for respecting canonical > > > equivalence. ICU works hard to avoid the extra effort involved, > > > apparently even going to the extreme of implicitly declaring that > > > Vietnamese is not a human language. > > > A bit over the top, eh? > > Then remove the "no known language" from the bug list > What does this refer to? > > …ICU isn't > fast enough to load a collation from customisation - it takes hours! … > ICU is, alas, ridiculously slow > I'm also curious what this refers to, perhaps it should be a separate ICU bug?
