Canonical block names: spaces vs. underscores

Doug Ewell doug at ewellic.org
Thu May 26 15:41:49 CDT 2016


Mathias Bynens wrote:

> Any chance the canonical names can be used in `Blocks.txt` as well,
> for consistency? This would simplify scripts that parse the Unicode
> database text files. 

I don't see the problem here. The loose-matching rule is well-defined
and not complicated, either visually or algorithmically; and if Mathias
has an implementation up on GitHub, he should be able to use it wherever
it's needed.

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