On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
For future reference, please don't quote my entire message below yours
-- it clutters the archives and also removes context.
> Yes, I did a diff between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm when I worked on the patch. The diff between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm
arequite small:
That would match my expectation. In case it wasn't clear before, my
preference is to split this patch into two patches: First convert to
.ucm, then update to 2022 revision. Then the small diff will be
obvious to everyone who looks at the second commit.
> For your question:
>
> "9 characters are no longer required by the new standard, but are
> retained in this patch for compatibility"
>
> How is that done?
>
>
> The 9 mappings are not changed between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm. For example, GB18030 code 0xFD9C is one of the 9
not-requiredcode, but the mapping:
>
> <UF92C> \xFD\x9C |0
>
> Still appears in 2022.ucm, so that this character is retained.
Thanks for clarifying -- by saying "retained in the patch", the commit
message implied to me that the patch added something not in the
upstream file.
--
John Naylor
Amazon Web Services
