L2/07-338

From: Mark Davis
Date: 2007-10-05 10:00:21 -0700
Subject: UCD.html as a UAX

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For historical reasons, much of the description and documentation
of Unicode Properties and the Unicode Character Database is not
actually in the book or in UAXes. It is, instead, in files that
were originally ReadMe files in the data directories, such as
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html.

This is a problem -- people often don't realize that this file
exists or that this vital information is in fact part of the
standard; moreover, since the file doesn't have the same kind of
prominence, it doesn't get the same treatment as the other
documentation in terms of public review and exposure during
development.

The editorial committee is proposing that we move towards having
this information in a regular UAX. Because of the relatively short
time frame remaining in Unicode 5.1, this would take the form of
having a "stub" UAX that provides a summary and points to the
pieces that exist in the data directories. Over time, other documents
and places on the website would be changed to point to this new
UAX, and material from the data directories would be folded into it.

--
Mark