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

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0
Date
Msg-id f3ecc503b9ecbaf9b0c0315ee0218055458f56a5.camel@j-davis.com
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In response to Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0
Re: Update Unicode data to Unicode 16.0.0
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On Sat, 2025-03-15 at 10:14 -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> In the long term I think we should figure out how to support newer
> versions of unicode for the builtin, but in my mind that might
> involve
> the necessity of supporting multiple versions of unicode such that
> the
> choice remains to remain on the older one.

What do you think of Tom's argument that waiting to update Unicode is
what creates the problem in the first place?

"by then they might well have instances of the newly-assigned code
points in their database"[1]

Regards,
    Jeff Davis

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3481161.1742055336@sss.pgh.pa.us



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