[RFC] Refresh iswblank and iswspace (was Re: Update wctype functions to Unicode 5.2?)

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov
Mon Feb 15 20:12:00 GMT 2010


Dave Korn sent the following at Monday, February 15, 2010 2:55 PM
>On 15/02/2010 09:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 14 18:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>>> For a start, here are patches to iswblank and iswspace to add the
>>>>> missing characters U+180e (MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR),
>>>>  The sons of the mighty Chinggis do not "separate" their vowels!
>>>> They sweep down in a mighty horde from the steppe on horseback and
>>>> cleave them asunder with their swords!
>>> Yeah, shouldn't that be MONGOLIAN BOWEL SEPARATOR?
>>
>> I'm concerned.  Do you think that's a bug in Unicode 5.2?  Should we
>> report this upstream?
>
>  We don't "report" to upstream!  We pillage and burn and disembowel
> our way across Europe to upstream, leaving a trail of grieving
> orphans and widows in our wake!
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