Re: [bug-libunistring] feature request: unicode version

[Bruno Haible]

Roger Crew wrote
in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libunistring/2023-08/msg00002.html>:

> One never knows quite what one is linking to 
> and this would be an easy way to find out.
> 
> E.g., a client may care about there being support for some particular
> block of obscure traditional Chinese characters or some set of
> emojis/whatever that didn't go in until Unicode 13.  Or if I'm
> depending on some character functionality that wasn't fully settled
> until Unicode 12 ...
>
> And while this can be inferred (sort of) from the libunistring
> version, you don't actually publish a correspondence (*)
> ...
> My actual situation is that I need 
> to provide unicode support in a programming language, and I really 
> have no idea what my users will be doing with it, but, "How up 
> to date is your Unicode implementation?  Do you support version N?"
> are fairly obvious questions for them to ask.

Pretty convincing.

This feature will be present starting from libunistring version 1.2.

Thanks for the suggestion and explanations!

Bruno