Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Proposed updates for Unicode Collation and IDNA

The proposed update of UTS#10 Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) modifies the specification for certain edge cases (overlapping contractions), and tightens the requirements for well-formed collation element tables. The detailed descriptions of parametric tailoring options have been removed, and now refer to the corresponding section in LDML. That section adds new explanations and definitions. There are a number of improvements, including additional examples, and some rearrangement of text. See PRI #223

The data has been updated for the Unicode 6.2 beta review, and the associated CollationAuxiliary.txt file in CollationAuxiliary.zip now includes a description of the implicit fractional weight generation and the context syntax. For more details, see Modifications.

There is also a proposed update of UTS #46 Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing. The data has been updated for the Unicode 6.2 beta review, with minor changes to the text. See PRI #224