annotations (was: NamesList.txt as data source)

[Doug Ewell]

My point is that of J.S. Choi and Janusz Bień: the problem with 
declaring NamesList off-limits is that it does contain information that 
is either:

• not available in any other UCD file, or
• available, but only in comments (like the MAS mappings), which aren't
  supposed to be parsed either.

Ken wrote:

> [ .. ] NamesList.txt is itself the result of a complicated merge
> of code point, name, and decomposition mapping information from
> UnicodeData.txt, of listings of standardized variation sequences from
> StandardizedVariants.txt, and then a very long list of annotational
> material, including names list subhead material, etc., maintained in
> other sources.

But sometimes an implementer really does need a piece of information 
that exists only in those "other sources." When that happens, sometimes 
the only choices are to resort to NamesList or to create one's own data 
file, as Ken did by parsing the comment lines from the math file. Both 
of these are equally distasteful when trying to be conformant.

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