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1 June 23, 1999
2
3 This directory contains the initial release for Unicode 3.0.
4
5 This release consists of corrections and additions to the
6 Unicode Character Database, to match the publication of
7 The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.
8
9 Detailed documentation of the files constituting the
10 Unicode Character Database (contributory data files for
11 the standard itself) can now be found in
12 UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html.
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15 NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE 
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17 The files have been copied from
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19         ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/
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21 and most of them have been renamed to better fit 8.3 filename limitations.
22
23 long name at unicode.org                short name              latest '#'
24 ------------------------                ----------              ----------
25 ArabicShaping-#.txt                     ArabShap.txt            2
26 Blocks-#.txt                            Blocks.txt              3
27 CompositionExclusions-#.txt             CompExcl.txt            1
28 EastAsianWidth-#.txt                    EAWidth.txt             3
29 Index-#.txt                             Index.txt               3.0.0
30 Jamo-#.txt                              Jamo.txt                2
31 LineBreak-#.txt                         LineBrk.txt             5
32 NamesList-#.txt                         Names.txt               3.0.0
33 NamesList-#.html                        NamesList.html          1
34 PropList-#.txt                          Props.txt               3.0.0
35 SpecialCasing-#.txt                     SpecCase.txt            2
36 UnicodeData-#.txt                       Unicode.300             3.0.0
37 UnicodeData-#.html                      Unicode3.html           3.0.0
38 UnicodeCharacterDatabase-#.html         UCD300.html             3.0.0
39
40 The *.pl files are generated from these files by the 'mktables.PL' script.
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42 While the files have been renamed the links in the html files haven't.
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44 -- 
45 jhi@iki.fi