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commit b6dbf1d39057ebab301f6e56d7c7ebcd44cefe8b
Author: Unicode Consortium <unicode.org>
Date: Tue Jan 28 10:36:44 2020 -0700
Use Unicode 13.0 (beta)
Unicode has changed its yearly release cycle so that the final version
is not available until early March of the year. This year it is March
10, 2020.
However, all changes planned were finalized in early January, and the
actual computer files have been updated to their presumably final
substantive versions. The release has been authorized without further
review needed.
The release is awaiting final documentation additions, and soak
time of
the beta to verify there are no glitches. This commit causes Perl to
participate in that soak.
I don't anticipate any problems, and likely the only substantive
change
upon the official release will be to update perldelta. Comments
in the
files supplied by Unicode will likely also change to indicate
these are
no longer beta.
There were very few changes affecting existing characters; most of the
changes involved adding new characters, including emoji. The break
characteristics of some existing characters were changed (GCB, LB, WB,
and SB properties). The only perl code I really had to change to cope
with the new release was about rules in the Line Break property,
dealing
around ellipses (...) and certain East Asian characters next to
opening
parentheses.
If there are problems, we can revert this at any time, and ship with
12.0.
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