On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:36:45 +0200 Manuel Strehl via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> For me it's currently much easier to have all the data in a single > place, e.g. a large XML file, than spread over a multitude of files > _with different ad-hoc syntaxes_. > > The situation would possibly be different, though, if the UCD data > would be split in several files of the same format. (Be it JSON, CSV, > YAML, XML, TOML, whatever. Just be consistent.) Most properties are stored in pretty much the same format in the UCD files. UnicodeData.txt is the major exception; it seems to date from when the set of properties was expected to be stable. The big exception is set-valued properties. PropList.txt can be viewed as having an odd syntax for storing the set of miscellaneous Boolean properties for which the codepoint has the value of 'true'. Richard.
