Re: Unicode 9.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:57:15 +0000
> 
> This may well be something that was going without saying, but just in 
> case / to be pernickety, there's a specific warning on the beta 9 page:
> 
> http://unicode.org/versions/beta-9.0.0.html
> """
> No products or implementations should be released based on the beta UCD 
> data files—use only the final, approved Version 9.0.0 data files, 
> expected in June 2016.
> """
> 
> It is also stated there they have already frozen the code point and 
> character names, and to be honest I haven't even looked at what's new in 
> 9 in any depth. In practice there may well not be any more changes 
> before finalisation of 9, whether emacs-significant changes or otherwise.
> 
> And I'm _not_ objecting to the recent update (a761fbf2) of the files to 
> beta 9 in git for a shakedown during pretest, which I think was what Eli 
> meant anyway, but that's still distinct from an emacs official versioned 
> release tarball.
> 
> I just mean (and this very probably won't even arise in the end): at 
> some future time close to the emacs release, if for some reason unicode 
> 9 still isn't officially final yet, and if for some reason you don't 
> want to delay the emacs release a bit to wait for it... the official 
> emacs release should probably be made with older final definitions, not 
> any beta ones.

I don't see why we should refrain from using the beta files in the
release, if they don't release the official Unicode 9.0 by the time we
are ready.  No reason whatsoever.