Tuesday, April 12, 2011

PRI #182: Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/

Review period for this item closes on May 6, 2011.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #182: Proposed Update UTS #18

A proposed update for UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions has been posted by the Unicode Consortium at http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/proposed.html . Feedback on this draft is welcome, especially from regular expression engine developers and users. The main changes in this update include:

* Changes in conformance clauses for PRI #179, Changes to Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri179/
* A new conformance clause for Level 2: RL2.7 Full Properties.
* Simplification of the definition of \p{blank} in Annex C Compatibility Properties.
* Clarifications of various conformance issues.

The review period for feedback closes on May 6, 2011; feedback on the document will be reviewed at the May Unicode Technical Committee meeting.

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http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

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