Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0
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Msg-id e600a48f238edb3175ce7856d232ecdc59bc1fe3.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 14:54 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> And nobody has refuted the argument that refusing to
> update the Unicode tables will cause other problems (such as not
> knowing what to do with new code points that are added in the other
> places where those tables are used).

The argument is irrefutable.
I can only utter my (unproven) conviction that the complaints about
some outlandish character being converted to upper case in the wrong
way won't be as loud as the complaints about a corrupted index.

But perhaps both occurrences would be rare enough that there is
little point in arguing at all.

> People who aren't doing the work
> to improve the infrastructure don't get to hold the longstanding
> process hostage.

Actually, I am arguing for *not* doing the work...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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