From: Antoine Leca (Antoine10646@leca-marti.org)
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 10:49:03 CST
On Monday, December 12th, 2005 15:29Z, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> I guess that is because you are not reading the correct file. You are
>> supposed to read <http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html>
>> and to follow the links provided (one of them leads to
>> UnicodeData.txt).
>>
>> If I read correctly, this file is correctly tagged (version, date).
>
> Wrong file? No.
>
> the UCD.html file appeared long after UnicodeData.txt was initially
> created.
Yes. And by that time, the (initially single-file information) evolved into
a _database_ (which is for what stands the "D".)
> Before that, the .txt file was published in a FTP directory
> in a directory that contained the licence and copyright notice.
I do not what you are meaning exactly.
It existed a file named UnicodeData-1.1.x.txt along with a README file in
ftp://unicode.org/pub/MappingTables/. Of course, the way graphical FTP
clients behave, when you direct a browser to this site, it displayed the
README file as a comment.
With the evolution of times, more files have been added to what is now a
data base, and the README, which initialy just described the format of the
table, was (at of v3) divided into UnicodeData-3.x.x.html and
UnicodeCharacterDatabase-3.x.x.html, and both merged oas of v4 into
UCD.html.
So you are really saying exactly the same as I did.
> UCD.html itself is not normative but descriptive.
I am unsure here. It is certainly a genuine part of the The Unicode
Standard, version 4.1. Whether there is a need to distinguish between the
two states is something I cannot decide.
> normative file can't beused outside of the document that describes
> it, i.e. the published Unicodebook or the PDF version of this book,
> linked from the Unicode web site's "Start Here" page.
Huh ? The terms of use certainly allow for about any _use_ of them; what is
not allowed is to severe the copyright attributions (of course), to modify
anything if you do not first make clear it is a modified copy, and of course
anything which is not permitted by your local law with a copyrighted work
(such as pretending it's yours; at least here, that is.)
OTOH, one is free to add restrictions on the copy you are looking at, so it
might be true for your copy.
Antoine
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